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Fish Cheeks. " Fish Cheeks " is a 1987 one-page narrative essay by Chinese-American author Amy Tan and her first published essay. [1] The work was first published in Seventeen and covers a Christmas Eve dinner when Tan was 14 years old. [2] [3] It was subsequently published as a part of The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.
The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured similarly to a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to ...
The Bonesetter's Daughter. The Bonesetter's Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tan 's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this book deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother. The Bonesetter's Daughter is divided into two major stories. The first is about Ruth, a Chinese-American woman living ...
Website. www .amytan .net. Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film. She is also known for other novels, short story collections, children's books, and a memoir. Tan has earned a number of awards acknowledging her contributions to literary ...
ISBN. 978-0-399-13578-1. OCLC. 23144220. The Kitchen God's Wife is the second novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan. First published in 1991, it deals extensively with Chinese-American female identity and draws on the story of her mother's life. [1]
32894903. Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 20. LC Class. PS3570.A48 H86 1995. The Hundred Secret Senses is a bestselling [1] 1995 novel by Chinese-American writer Amy Tan. It was published by Putnam, [2] and was shortlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. [3] While the story is fictional, it is based on the experiences of Tan and on stories told ...
Publishers Weekly called it a "robust book" and wrote "this is a powerful collection that should enthrall readers of The Joy Luck Club and Tan's other novels." Kirkus Reviews wrote "her prose is thoughtful, never maudlin or self-pitying. Tan writes as easily and unpretentiously about herself as about others."
978-0-02-788835-5. OCLC. 427452871. The Chinese Siamese Cat is a 1994 children's book by Amy Tan. It is about a mother siamese cat telling her kittens how they obtained their distinctive seal point markings .