Author

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 * Amy Tan the daughter of Chinese immigrants, would answer her mother's Chinese questions in English.
 * Growing up in Oakland, California, Tan continued to embrace typical American values and ideas.
 * Amy Tan visited China with her mother at the age of 35.
 * When Tan came back from China to the United States she, began the //Joy Luck Club (1989),// a novel about four Chinese American women with their mothers.
 * Tan triumphed with her second novel, //The Kitchen Gold's wife (1991)