Book review: Amy Tan's 'Backyard Bird Chronicles' is a lively, unexpectedly moving account of the novelist’s feathered friends While on a book tour in Cambridge, Tan recorded an episode of my ...

“These pages are a record of my obsession with birds,” writes Amy Tan in the preface to “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” and “obsession” is no overstatement. Her new book, culled from ...

I had to lure these birds to check out my woodland habitat and ... When I first read Bernd Heinrich’s book “The Mind of a Raven,” I was tempted to cultivate a relationship with a crow.

National Humanities Medal winner and best-selling author of "The Joy Luck Club," Amy Tan ... moments. Tan's connection to nature is captured in her latest book, "The Backyard Bird Chronicles ...