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Born in Oakland, California to John (a Baptist minister) and Daisy ( Shanghai nurse), she was 14 when her father and elder brother died of brain tumours. With her mother and younger brother Peter, Tan moved to Montreux, Switzerland shortly afterward. She received a master's degree in linguistics at San Jose State University and her first job was as a children's speech therapist.
Tan is best known for the critically acclaimed The Joy Luck ClubThe Joy Luck Club is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese-American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mah Jong for money while feasting on a variety of food. There a, a book made into a feature film. She also wrote several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses . Her fourth and latest book is The Bonesetter's DaughterThe Bonesetter's Daughter is Amy Tan's fourth novel. Its protagonist is Ruth Luyi Young, the daughter of Liu LuLing (her mother) and Pan Kai Jing (her scientist father who died in World War II in China). The novel's main themes are the clash of American a.
An author of what she calls "her inspiration; her mother," Tan uses traditional ChineseThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute customs clashing with AmericanThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in customs as the main foundation for her works.
Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing suicide, and Amy believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depressionIt is common to feel sad, discouraged, or "down" once in a while, and anyone in this state might say they are suffering from depression. But for some people, this mood persists. For depression, or any other condition, to be termed "clinical" it must reach. Tan currently takes Zoloft to treat her bouts of serious depression [1].
Since turning 40, Tan has been a member of the garage bandRock band (or rock group is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specialising in a particular form of electronically amplified music. Deriving its name from the musical style which was its immediate progenitor, rock and roll, the type of music Rock Bottom RemaindersThe Rock Bottom Remainders are a rock & roll band that consist of mostly popular English book, magazine, and newspaper authors. The band gets its name from the book industry's name for so-called "bargain books" found in superstores: remainders. The band m with Stephen King and Dave Barry. She married Lou De-Mattei in 1976.