Amy Tan, a first-generation American, writes about the Chinese community she knows well. The outer outline of the story is the story of two sisters, Olivia and Kwan. However, the world of ancient legends and ghosts, the world of Yin, in which the romantic dreamer Kwan exists, is not only constantly present in her stories, but, oddly enough, eventually bursts into the life of the distrustful Olivia, radically changing her. Tang's books have not only gained enormous popularity in the United States, but have also been translated into many languages around the world. Now the Russian reader will also get to know her work.