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Amy Tan

(b.1952)

Amy Tan is the author of four critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novels. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a recipient of the Commonwealth Gold Award. The Joy Luck Club was also adapted into a feature film in 1994. Her subsequent novels are The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter. She lives in San Francisco and New York.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Joy Luck Club (1989)
   The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
   The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
   The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)
   Saving Fish from Drowning (2005)
   Valley of Amazement (2013)

Novellas and Short Stories

Rules for Virgins (2013)

Anthologies edited

Mid-Life Confidential (1994) (with Stephen King and Dave Marsh)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories
The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999) (with Katrina Kenison)

Picture Books show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Amy Tan

American Christmas Stories (2021)
edited by
Connie Willis

By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

Rotten English (2007)
A Literary Anthology
edited by
Dohra Ahmad

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Award nominations

	1996 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Hundred Secret Senses
	1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Joy Luck Club
	1989 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : The Joy Luck Club
	1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan recommends

A Council of Dolls (2023)
Mona Susan Power
"The Grass Dancer is astonishing, and not simply because it's Susan Power's first book. It is pure and potent magic, with storytelling that encircles you like wisps of tribal ghosts."

In the Time of Our History (2023)
Susanne Pari
"This jewel of a novel is a universal tale that naturally leads to self-reflection and conversations about the changing relationship between mothers and daughters, and the choices we make, good and bad, early in life and late, which determine our identity."

What Jonah Knew (2022)
Barbara Graham
"A spellbinding literary thriller packed with psychological suspense and profound questions about motherhood, trauma and how death illuminates life."

Open Secrets (2020)
Sheila Kohler
"Her stories are elegant, smooth, and gorgeously sensual, belying the tension that crackles beneath. Long after I've finished reading one of her stories, the image continues to pulse."

I Almost Forgot About You (2016)
Terry McMillan
"Terry McMillan's novels have always been about telling the uncensored truth about friends, family, lovers, and oneself. Through addictively revealing conversations - including an instructive one about the sexual prowess of men who made the A list - McMillan's narrator is the ideal running commentator on what smart women do to reach the pinnacle of success and what they must do to get the hell out before it's too late. It's a story about both reinvention and acceptance, told in McMillan's quintessential voice, now even more expansive, prismatically perceptive, and laugh-aloud generous in how we talk about love and all its wonders."

Beautiful Maria of My Soul (2010)
(Mambo Kings, book 2)
Oscar Hijuelos
"I fell instantly in love."

Picking Bones from Ash (2009)
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
"As Mockett reveals, the ghosts of our mothers are always within us."

Under Fishbone Clouds (2009)
Sam Meekings
"A powerful and mesmerizing novel, both mythic and intimate... a great accomplishment of imagination, insight, and lyricism."

Beautiful as Yesterday (2009)
Fan Wu
"Beautiful as Yesterday is a story with intelligence, insight, and heart."

Beside a Burning Sea (2008)
John Shors
"A master storyteller... Beside a Burning Sea confirms again that Shors is an immense talent."

Love and War in California (2007)
Oakley Hall
"This is a book for our times, a book that will surely stand out as an enduring masterpiece of American literature."

Unpolished Gem (2006)
Alice Pung
"Alice Pung is a gem. Her voice is the real thing."

War Trash (2004)
Ha Jin
"I am enthralled by Ha Jin's work: he always presents moral conundrums within historical contexts; the frayed edges of humanity; the ways in which both the tenacious and hopeless survive. He is one of our most gifted and essential writers."

The Namesake (2003)
Jhumpa Lahiri
"The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say 'Read this!'"

Daughter's Keeper (2003)
Ayelet Waldman
"A powerhouse novel of complex emotions... so compelling that when I finished the book, I started over again."

Protect and Defend (2000)
(Kerry Kilcannon, book 2)
Richard North Patterson
"An important novel on passion and politics... appeals to both the intellect and the heart."

The Mistress of Spices (1997)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
"A dazzling tale of misbegotten dreams and desires, woven with poetry and storyteller magic."

The Last Time I Saw Mother (1996)
Arlene J Chai
"A remarkable first novel filled with family secrets and the intersection of personal and world histories, told through four mesmerizing voices."

Red Sorghum (1993)
Mo Yan
"Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have."

China Boy (1991)
(Kai Ting, book 1)
Gus Lee
"What a knockout, an incredibly rich and new voice for American literature... China Boy grabs the reader's heart and won't let go... a wonder of a story."

The Middle Kingdom (1991)
Andrea Barrett
"An exhilerating book... wonderful insights... Ms. Barrett has captured a truly authentic Beijing."

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