12/1/2004
By Amy Tan
Years after a holiday dinner gone sour, the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club has learned to appreciate her mother's lesson from that night.
I fell in love with the minister's son the winter I turned 14. He
was not Chinese, but as white as Mary in the manger. For Christmas, I
prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose.