Born in 1952 in Oakland, California to ese immigrant parents, Amy Tan followed her own path. Over the objes of her mother, she majored in college in writing and linguistid pursued a career in business writing.
Any Taionship with her mother was very difficult. An opportunity to travel with her mother back to a brought a new perspective.
Amy Tans first fi efforts were short stories. These attracted a, Sandra Dijkstra, who sold what became The Joy Luck Club to Putnams. When published in 1986 The Joy Luck Club spent 40 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list. It was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a recipient of the oh Gold Award and the Bay Area Book Award. The Joy Luck Club ted into a feature film in 1994, for which Amy Tan was a co-swriter with Ron Bass and a co-producer with Bass and Wayne Wang.
A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious boween four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they dont know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in a. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they dont know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.