Tan, Amy

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Prize-winning Amy Tan creates well-crafted stories of Chinese women who immigrated to the United States, with themes of generational and cultural hurdles between mothers and daughters. Her characters speak frankly of women's difficulty negotiating power and managing family relationships, and these stories often unveil long-held family secrets. The heart of Tan's stories is in the history, as she teaches the reader about Chinese culture. Tan makes this history personable by winding the narrator's idiosyncrasies and superstitious beliefs into the story. Start with: The Joy Luck Club
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Prize-winning Amy Tan creates well-crafted stories of Chinese women who immigrated to the United States, with themes of generational and cultural hurdles between mothers and daughters. Her characters speak frankly of women's difficulty negotiating power and managing family relationships, and these stories often unveil long-held family secrets. The heart of Tan's stories is in the history, as she teaches the reader about Chinese culture. Tan makes this history personable by winding the narrator's idiosyncrasies and superstitious beliefs into the story. Start with: The Joy Luck Club
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