Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. She has lectured at universities like Stanford, Oxford, Jagiellonia, Beijing, and Georgetown (both Washington, DC and Doha), spoken at the White House and delivered a TED talk.Ī passionate writer, Amy resides in California and New York with her husband and their two dogs.įour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's 'saying' the stories. Department of Education.Īmy has also worked as a freelance business writer for powerhouses such as IBM and AT&T. She has previously served as a language development specialist for county-wide programs focusing on developmentally disabled children, as well as a director for a demonstration project bankrolled by the U.S. with a double major in English and Linguistics, as well as an M.A. She attended Linfield College, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and University of California, Berkeley, receiving her B.A. Amy Tan is a Chinese-American author of literary fiction novels.īorn in the U.S to immigrant parents, Amy, her mother and younger brother went for a traveling adventure in Europe when she was 15, after losing her older brother and father to brain tumors.

Author of the kitchen god's wife 1991