Amy Tan's Reviews
Reviews of Amy’s Work
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Feb.18.2001
Published by The New York Times
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener and the third for the one who ''took it to heart.'' What a pity...
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Nov.23.2003
Published by The New York Times
Many of the essays in The Opposite of Fate are sharp and invigorating, like “Mother Tongue,” Tan’s defense of the fierce, primal authority of her mother’s “broken” English. … But...
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Mar.19.1989
Published by The New York Times
In The Joy Luck Club, her first novel, short-story-like vignettes alternate back and forth between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their...
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
—Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
About Amy
As a child Amy Tan believed her life was duller than most. She read to escape. Her parents wanted her to be a doctor and a concert pianist. She secretly dreamed of becoming an artist. She began writing fiction when she was 33. Her first short story was...
Connections
Causes Amy Tan Supports
Self Help for the Elderly
Pets Unlimited
Squaw Valley Community of Writers
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Opera