![]() Thanks to her direct experience, she is particularly well placed to instil in her characters many of the emotions and feelings typical of those caught between multiple cultural identities. The book is meant to reflect more on emigrant life and mother-daughter relationships, especially within a cross-cultural setting.īorn in California to a father who studied as an engineer in Beijing and a mother from an affluent Shanghai family, Tan had a very different upbringing from her parents and, as a result, developed a different mindset and worldview. Even though admitting that a few of her friends said that reading the book is like listening to her and her mother talking to each other, Tan explains that the actual details of the novel are not directly taken from her life. Many immediately thought it was an autobiographical book because her story arguably overlaps, at least to a certain extent, with that of her characters. It was 1989 when Amy Tan, a then unknown writer published her first novel The joy luck club. ![]() ![]() “This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.” ![]()
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