Amy Tan is a best-selling novelist and perhaps the most famous Asian-American author today. While her work usually focuses on relationships between immigrant mothers from China and their American-born daughters, Tan's work has a mass appeal that cuts across lines of both culture and gender. Her novel The Joy Luck Club is one of the most well-known and appreciated works by a contemporary Asian-American author.

Reviews:

“Strongly recommended for middle and high school libraries where author research projects exist. Personal interviews of Amy Tan added to numerous quotations in the text give a 'up close and personal' feel.”

—TriState Young Adult Book Review Committee

“Readers, middle school and up, will enjoy this volume, especially if they have aspirations to become writers.”

—Multicultural Review