![]() During this period, Amy learned about her mother's previous marriage to another man in China, of their four children (a son who died as a toddler and three daughters), and how her mother left these children behind in Shanghai. ĭaisy subsequently moved Amy and her younger brother, John Jr., to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school at the Institut Monte Rosa, Montreux. When she was fifteen years old, her father and older brother Peter both died of brain tumors within six months of each other. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale for one year. Her father was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who traveled to the United States in order to escape the chaos of the Chinese Civil War. She is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. 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 that aired on PBS. ![]() ![]() Tan's latest book is a memoir entitled Where The Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir (2017). Tan has written several other novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement. ![]() The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)Īmy Ruth Tan (born on February 19, 1952) is an American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name, as well as other novels, short story collections, and children's books. ![]()
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