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Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.
Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish from Drowning. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write. Tan is also in a band with several other well-known writers, the Rock Bottom Remainders.
Tan was born in Oakland, California. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants Daisy (née Li), and John Tan, an electrical engineer and Baptist minister. When Tan was 15 years old, her older brother Peter and father both died of brain tumors within eight months of each other. Daisy moved Amy and her younger brother John Jr. to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school, at the Institut Monte Rosa, Montreux. During this period in her life, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, of their four children (a son who died as a toddler, and three daughters) and how her mother was forced to leave her children from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident provided the basis for Tan's first novel, 1989 New York Times bestseller The Joy Luck Club. In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy met her three half-sisters.
Tan began her college days at Linfield College in Oregon before transferring to San José State University in California because she had fallen in love with Lou DeMattei, an Italian American. Tan received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley. While in school, she worked odd jobs—switchboard operator, carhop, bartender, and pizza maker—before starting a writing career. As a freelance business writer, she worked on projects for AT&T, IBM, Bank of America and Pacific Bell.
In a New York Times "Room for Debate" piece "Deconstructing Lyme Disease", "My Plight with the Illness", Amy Tan discussed her late-stage case.
She resides in Sausalito, California, with her husband, DeMattei, in a house they designed "to feel open and airy, like a tree house, but also to be a place where we could live comfortably into old age," with accessibility features. He is a tax attorney whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.
Tan's first novel was The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989, which became a best-seller. The novel consists of sixteen related stories about the experiences of four Chinese-American mother-daughter pairs.
In 1991, The Kitchen God's Wife was published. Tan's second novel was critically acclaimed and also focuses on the relationship between an immigrant Chinese mother and her American-born daughter.
The Hundred Secret Senses, published in 2001, was a departure from the first two novels, in focusing on the relationships between sisters. The Bonesetter's Daughter, Tan's fourth novel, tells the story of an immigrant Chinese woman and her American-born daughter.
Tan's work has been adapted into films and other media. The Joy Luck Club was adapted into a both a play and a film in 1993. The Bonesetter's Daughter was adapted into an opera in 2008. Tan's children's book Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat was adapted into a PBS animated television show.
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Books
Amy Tan - The Backyard Bird Chronicles (read by Amy Tan, Evan Sibley, David Allen Sibley)
Amy Tan - Where The Past Begins (read by Amy Tan)
Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses (read by Amy Tan)
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club (read by Gwendoline Yeo)
Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife (read by ???)
Amy Tan - The Bonesetter's Daughter (read by Amy Tan, Chen Joan Tan)
Amy Tan - Saving Fish From Drowning (read by Amy Tan)
Amy Tan - The Valley Of Amazement (read by Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean, Amy Tan)
Amy Tan - The Opposite Of Fate (read by Amy Tan)
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