To them, she isn't a best-selling novelist, but simply the flightless creature and, most important, a reliable source of food. They would not know her at all, nor she them, if not for the garden created around the home in Sausalito, Calif., that she and her husband downsized to in 2012.
Now Amy Tan is bird-watching, and the birds are watching, too. They may not have read The Joy Luck Club or any of her other novels, but they have their eyes on her. I'm a dependable human, Ms. Tan writes in her newest book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Every bird says so.
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