Today's Saturday Spotlight author is Amy Tan.
Quick Facts:
1. She was born in the US on February 19, 1952 to immigrant parents from China.
2. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and Linguistics from San José State University.
3. Her novels are The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning, all New York Times bestsellers and winners of various awards.
4. She also wrote a memoir entitled The Opposite of Fate, as well as two children's books.
5. The adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film.
Here's a description from Goodreads:
A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.
Learn more about Amy Tan and her books here.
Have you read any of Amy Tan's books? Do you recommend any of them?
