Tan, Amy

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Description: Prize-winning Amy Tan creates well-crafted stories of Chinese women who immigrated to the United States, with themes of generational and cultural hurdles between mothers and daughters. Her characters speak frankly of women's difficulty negotiating power and managing family relationships, and these stories often unveil long-held family secrets. The heart of Tan's stories is in the history, as she teaches the reader about Chinese culture. Tan makes this history personable by winding the narrator's idiosyncrasies and superstitious beliefs into the story. Start with: The Joy Luck Club

Gender: Female

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Description: Prize-winning Amy Tan creates well-crafted stories of Chinese women who immigrated to the United States, with themes of generational and cultural hurdles between mothers and daughters. Her characters speak frankly of women's difficulty negotiating power and managing family relationships, and these stories often unveil long-held family secrets. The heart of Tan's stories is in the history, as she teaches the reader about Chinese culture. Tan makes this history personable by winding the narrator's idiosyncrasies and superstitious beliefs into the story. Start with: The Joy Luck Club

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Gender: Female

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American
Asian American

Occupation: Author

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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.

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The person Tan, Amy represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in North Webster Community Public Library.
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Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books because of the characters.