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Amy Tan

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Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ēnměi; born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film.

She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Her most recent book, Saving Fish From Drowning, explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition into the jungles of Burma. In addition, Tan has written two c ...more

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Have you ever heard someone pronounce a word incorrectly and wondered whether to correct him or her? How about your pronouncing a word a certain way and discovering years later you had been saying it incorrectly (horrors)? How about pronouncing a word a certain way and later thinking you were saying it incorrectly because everyone used a different pronunciation, but then discovering you were right Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.94 · 1,001,629 ratings · 29,853 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors
The Joy Luck Club
3.95 avg rating — 641,610 ratings — published 1989 — 180 editions
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
3.99 avg rating — 126,107 ratings — published 2001 — 87 editions
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The Kitchen God's Wife
4.02 avg rating — 81,674 ratings — published 1991 — 86 editions
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The Hundred Secret Senses
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The Valley of Amazement
3.66 avg rating — 41,250 ratings — published 2013 — 70 editions
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Saving Fish from Drowning
3.45 avg rating — 30,931 ratings — published 2005 — 73 editions
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The Opposite of Fate: Memor...
3.93 avg rating — 8,126 ratings — published 2003 — 45 editions
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Rules for Virgins
3.43 avg rating — 3,404 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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Where the Past Begins: A Wr...
3.56 avg rating — 2,708 ratings — published 2017 — 29 editions
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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
tags: dream, fate, hope
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“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan
tags: life
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“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Polls

March 2017 New School Classic Poll

Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987, 324 pgs
 
  59 votes, 18.0%

 
  50 votes, 15.3%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pgs
 
  44 votes, 13.5%

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 1989, 288 pgs
 
  37 votes, 11.3%

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, 1953, 143 pgs
 
  24 votes, 7.3%

 
  22 votes, 6.7%

 
  21 votes, 6.4%

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 1931, 418 pgs
 
  20 votes, 6.1%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 1939, 231 pgs
 
  18 votes, 5.5%

 
  17 votes, 5.2%

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, 1904, 336 pgs
 
  12 votes, 3.7%

The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 1984, 450 pgs
 
  3 votes, 0.9%

327 total votes
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