NEA Big Read: Meet Amy Tan

Amy Tan's best-selling The Joy Luck Club (1989) was a landmark work exploring the dark side of mother-daughter relationships and the role of memory in the Chinese American immigrant experience. Tan has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays .She has been a finalist National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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I’m watching this bc my teacher told me to

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English class is literal hell.

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@@greekletterphi9620 Bruh I feel you

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Same

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Big agree

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@@greekletterphi9620 bro so true

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Who else is watching this for English?

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i am haha

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me

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I could listen to this woman speaking for hours, So thoughtful and insightful and heartwarming. I say this as a man, but I love this woman and I relate a lot to it and I think men should read these books as well as we could deconstruct a great deal of toxic masculinity and intolerance if we were to listen more to different perspectives and experiences like Ms. Tan's.

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ive never read one of her books but she is my new favorite author

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I am crying while watching this video. What an inspiring story of her life!

[@dvsteady]

What a beautiful interview. Amy has this way of still being so poetic and articulate in her raw speech. What a treasure to find this.

[@arvettadelashmit9337]

I have read all of your books that I could find. You helped me learn to take the time to I try and see how someone else may view the world differently from me. "Never judge a man, until you walk a mile in his shoes." It is not easy to do; but, it is worth trying over and over again. Thank you so much for writing your books.

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what a beautiful woman ! I have to thank to my professor to give me a chance to read her book. I fall in love with her books. Actually the leading character makes me felt something that I can see myself in the heart.I can see a part of myself when I was a little from this little girl's character of this book.
Thanks for uploading this video.

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Sherlock Holme

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She is a wonderful

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Let's talk about how flawless her mother's hair was in these pictures. Anyway

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lol for everyone watching for english (me too lol): press the ellipses by the thumbs buttons and hit open transcript and then you can just read all of the words that are said in the video

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Great idea...but I can't seem to find this option 😕 help!

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@@melissapfaff9991 I believe they mean captions

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You've always been my role model, Amy Tan. Love you!

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the joy luck club is my favorite book & movie ! i love it here 😩😩😩❤️

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She is amazing!

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I loved The Joy Luck Club, I read it in Dutch, and I'm looking forward to read more of her works!

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Shut up no one cares

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Her books are so fascinating to me!

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A national treasure of a novel.

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Magnifique

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here because kumar (y)

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the kumar homework club

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sAME

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Who else here from Canga?