In stark contrast to them, their children are well educated in America and are proficient in speaking affluent English. Because they are the first generation of immigrants from China, 4 of them remain as culture aliens to this brand new society due to their lack of proficiency in speaking English. They started a club for them to gather to play Mah Jong and feast on foods together, which is later on known as “The Joy Luck Club”. In 1949 the 4 mothers first met in a Baptist church and went on to play Mah Jong afterward. All 4 of them fled to America some point in their life in search of hope to start over a new life and to forget the past. The 4 mothers portray in the book have all shared painful and heartbroken memories back in the days in China during the Japanese occupation. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and the librettist for the opera The Bonesetter's Daughter.The Joy Luck Club is a novel first published by Amy Tan in 1989. ĪMY TAN is the author of The Valley of Amazement, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat.
Supplied with candor and characteristic humor, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth, with fiction serving as both her divining rod and link to meaning. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia-the real reason behind an IQ test she took at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother-and, for the first time publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals, and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gives evidence to all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer.
In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction.
“Wise and profound.” – Publishers Weekly(starred review) “A profound work of endless fascination, discovery, and compassion.”- Booklist (starred review)
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