Amy Tan
Amy Tan is an American author of Chinese American literature, best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club. She has appeared on The Simpsons in animated form. A major theme of her work is the exploration of the relationship between mother and daughter. When she was a teenager, her brother and father both died of brain tumors at almost the same time. After a move to Switzerland, Amy’s mother revealed that she had three daughters in China that she had with an abusive husband. Amy lives in California with her husband, Louis, who she met on a blind date.

Amy Tan became a published author in 1989 with the novel The Joy Luck Club. Below is a list of Amy Tan’s books in order of when they were originally published:

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Rules for Virgins (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Children's Books

The Moon Lady (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Post Pregnancy Diet (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Where The Past Begins: A Writers Memoir (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (With: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,Walter Dean Myers,Judith Ortiz Cofer,Neal Shusterman,Cherylene Lee,M. Jerry Weiss,Helen S. Weiss,Elennora Tate,Eugenia Collier,Paul Many,Michael Rosovsky) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Points of View(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
American Voices(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Growing Up Female: Stories By Women Writers From the American Mosaic(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mid-life Confidential(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Out of the Mold(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Short Stories 1999(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Eloquent Essay(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Big Book of California(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
40 Model Essays(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Selected Shorts: American Classics(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boomer List(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: The Best American Short Stories 1999 was co-edited by series editor Katrina Kenison. Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude was co-authored with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver and Ridley Pearson.

Hard Listening is written with fellow Rock Bottom Remainders band members Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Sam Barry, Matt Groening, Roy Blount Jr., Stephen King, James McBride, Ridley Pearson and Scott Turow.

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Amy Tan Synopsis: The Joy Luck Club is the debut novel from Amy Tan, was translated into 35 languages and adapted to film. It is the story of four mothers, four daughters and four families whose stories change based on who is telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese immigrant women to San Francisco eat dim sum, play mahjong and chat. They call themselves The Joy Luck Club.

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