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Amy Tan

Amy Tan. 1952 --. Personal Life . Born in California to Chinese immigrants John, a minister, and Daisy, who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. (This incident provided the basis for The Joy Luck Club ).

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Amy Tan

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  1. Amy Tan 1952 --

  2. Personal Life • Born in California to Chinese immigrants John, a minister, and Daisy, who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. (This incident provided the basis for The Joy Luck Club). • In the late 1960s, her older brother and father both died from brain tumors. After these tragedies, her mother moved the remianing family to Switzerland where Amy learned of her mothers’ abusive first marriage and her three half sisters, whom she met in China in 1987.

  3. Personal Life, cont’d. • She received multiple college degrees in English and linguistics form many CA schools. • Lives in CA and is married to a lawyer she met on a blind date in 1974. • She is in a band called the Rock Bottom Remainders with Stephen King and Barbara Kingsolver.

  4. Bibliography • The Joy Luck Club – 1989 (Her first and most famous novel) • The Kicthen God’s Wife – 1991 • The Hundred Secret Senses – 1995 • The Bonesetter’s Daughter – 2001 • Saving Fish From Drowning – 2005 • She has also written two children’s books and one nonfiction book.

  5. Conclusion • All of Tan’s books focus on the idea of the generation and cultural gap between a daughter that is ABC and immigrant parents (specifically mothers). • “I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.” – Amy Tan

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