(Feb. 19, 1952, Oakland, Calif., U.S.).
American author of novels about Chinese American women and the immigrant experience. Tan grew up in California and in Switzerland and studied English and linguistics at San Jose State University and the University of California, Berkeley. She was a highly successful freelance business writer in 1987 when she took her Chinese immigrant mother to revisit China. There Tan, for the first time, met two of her half sisters, a journey and a meeting that inspired part of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989). Her second novel, The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991), was inspired by her mother’s history. In The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), an American woman gradually learns to appreciate her Chinese half sister and the knowledge she imparts. Tan again explored the complex relationships of mothers and daughters in The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001). In Saving Fish from Drowning (2005), an idiosyncratic San Francisco art dealer narrates the story of a group of tourists travelling through China and Myanmar (Burma). Tan also published the collection of essays The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003).
The Joy Luck Club
There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters (Chinese-American women), the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart.
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