Amy Tan is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and The Bonesetter's Daughter. She is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and is on the board of American Bird Conservancy. She lives in Sausalito, California.
“You see the lives of these women, and you think about all the
women who came before you. . . . It’s among the canon of Asian
American stories that are feminist and that are true to our
being.”—Margaret Cho
“Brilliant . . . Powerful as myth.”—The Washington Post Book
World
“In the hands of Amy Tan, who has a wonderful eye for what is
telling, a fine ear for dialogue, a deep empathy for her subject
matter and a guilelessly straightforward way of writing, [the
themes and characters] sing with a rare fidelity and beauty. She
has written a jewel of a book.”—The New York Times
“What it is to be American, and a woman, mother, daughter, lover,
wife, sister, and friend—these are the troubling, loving alliances
and affiliations that Tan molds into the sixteen intricate
interlocking stories that constitute this remarkable first
novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Amazing . . . The Joy Luck Club is dazzling because of the worlds
it gives us. . . . The only negative thing I could ever say about
this book is that I’ll never again be able to read it for the first
time.”—Los Angeles Times
“Tracing the poignant destinies of two generations of tough,
intelligent women, each gorgeously written page welcomes the reader
and leads to an enlightenment that, like all true wisdom, sometimes
brings pleasure and sometimes sadness. . . . To tell this complex
story, Amy Tan, a writer of dazzling talent, has created an
intricate tapestry of a book—one tale woven into the other, a
panorama of distinctive voices that call out to each other over
time.”—Chicago Tribune
“Honest, moving, and beautifully courageous. Amy Tan shows us
China, Chinese-American women and their families, and the mystery
of the mother-daughter bond in ways that we have not experienced
before.”—Alice Walker
“Impressive . . . Describes the morass of fierce love and
misunderstanding which lies between the two generations.”—The New
Yorker
“There aren’t many books you finish and immediately want to
re-read, but this is one of them. The Joy Luck Club is like a
Chinese puzzle box—intricate, mysterious, and connected in a way
that only seems simple. . . . Almost mythic in structure, like the
hypnotic tales of the legendary Scheherazade, this fiction is also
concrete. . . . There are many more stories, each detail more
haunting and unforgettable than the one before, each reflecting on
someone else’s story.”—Cosmopolitan
“Subtle and delicate . . . An intimate glimpse into a way of life
and a culture seldom explored by Western literature . . . The
stories read well individually, but together, with characters and
circumstances so skillfully interwoven, the whole truly becomes
greater than the sum of its parts.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
“The Joy Luck Club will delight readers of any generation or
background with its carefully wrought stories of the physical and
literal oceans, geographical, cultural, generational, that both
divide and unite us.”—The Pittsburgh Press
“Powerful and accomplished . . . Rich in the bittersweet
ambiguities of real life.”—Newsday
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