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Amy Tan
Amy Tan is a best-selling novelist and perhaps the most famous Asian-American author today. While her work usually focuses on relationships between immigrant mothers from China and their American-born daughters, Tan's work has a mass appeal that cuts across lines of both culture and gender. Her novel, The Joy Luck Club, is one of the most well-known and appreciated works by a contemporary Asian-American author.
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Best-selling novelist Tan is the most well-known Asian-American author today. She focuses on relationships between mothers and daughters in her novels. Her stories are based on what she knowsher relationship with her mother. Readers, middle school and up, will enjoy this volume, especially if they have aspirations to become writers. Most of the biographies represent original research with the authors or their families through personal interviews and visits to their studios, along with the study of archival collections and attending their readings.
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