"Tan, Amy.(Narrative biography)." Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1995. NA. Academic OneFile. Gale. CCLA, Pensacola Junior College. 7 Dec. 2007
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Amy was born in Oakland California in1952 to a Chinese-born Baptist minister and an upper-class Shanghai family member. Tan did not have the easist chilhood she suffered through the loss of both her father and her sixteen-year-old brother to brain tumors, and later she was told that she had more siblings from her mothers first marriage. Which she had long since ran from abandioning her two young daughters as she feld her abrusive marriage. Tan majored in English at San Jose State.
Maslin, Janet. "The Joy Luck Club." Migration World Magazine 22.n1 (Jan-Feb 1994): 37(2). Academic OneFile. Gale. CCLA, Pensacola Junior College. 9 Dec. 2007
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In 1993, the famous novel about was Chinese-American families who start a club known as "The Joy......
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