![]() ![]() The Guilt, the Guilt"I feel like such a traitor," Tan says from her new home atop a Sausalito hillside, even though her husband constantly assures her that the waterfront community within view of downtown is really just another San Francisco neighborhood. In a one-day whirlwind tour, she reveals her favorite places to eat, play, walk and be entertained in the City by the Bay. Tan knows San Francisco like she knows the quirky characters of her books, and best of all, she's willing to share. ![]() "This city is like an opera - very dramatic, historical, tragic, funny, lyrical, beautiful, over-the-top," says Tan, who hit the literary scene in 1989 with "The Joy Luck Club" and has since published four more novels, two children's books and a book of essays. I dreamed of living there - literally dreamed of it." Thing is, even after decades of living the dream, Tan is as in love with San Francisco as she was then. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Fillmore, Haight-Ashbury. ![]() "My vision of the city was formed during that time," Tan says. To a suburban teenager in the late 1960s, San Francisco emitted a siren's call. That's just one of Tan's favorite haunts in the city that has been her home for 30 years, and the place of her dreams during the years she spent growing up on the fringes, in a series of Bay area towns including Oakland and Hayward. It's just that now there's a cooler, lesser-known part of town where the newest immigrants from China, Vietnam and Russia have settled: in the Richmond District, around Clement Street. Exotic, colorful, dreamy.Ĭhinatown can be fun, Tan concedes. But Chinatown is the setting for so many of her novels, practically a character. This, according to best-selling author Amy Tan. San Francisco's Chinatown is too full of tourists, so passe. ![]()
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