Amy Tan, the author of “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” and other popular novels, often writes her fiction ...

Mississippi's natural beauty and wealth of water and wooded areas make it the perfect place to go bird watching, even in wintertime.

If you know author Amy Tan for The Joy Luck Club — a novel about Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco — her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, might seem like a deviation.. That's ...

About 14.7 million birds crossed Mississippi from 7:40 a.m. Tuesday, April 22 until 6:30 a.m. April 23. About 19.6 million birds are estimated to be in flight over the state.

If you know author Amy Tan for The Joy Luck Club — a novel about Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco — her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, might seem like a deviation.. That's ...

Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...

THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES. by Amy Tan. Knopf, 320 pp., $35. Amy Tan will be appearing with David Sibley at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 3rd, at a Harvard Book Store event at First Parish Church.