Early Life
What profession did Daisy Tan want for Amy?
Doctor/Neurosurgeon
Name two reasons why Amy Tan started writing
Form of therapy, honor her mother, learn more about herself and her culture, means of escape
What literary movement is Amy Tan apart of
Post-modern
What game did the Joy Luck Club women play?
What disease does Amy Tan have?
Lyme Disease
Where did Amy's mother move the family to over her husband and son died?
Switzerland
Name one book written by Amy Tan other than The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Valley of Amazement
One aspect of Amy Tan's writing style
Simple language, flashbacks, long narrations, mysticism, non-linear plotline
Name of the event Ying-Ying attended when she was 4 years old
Moon Festival
Where was Amy's mother when she had a heart attack scare?
The fish market
How old was Amy when she lost her father and brother?
15
What did Amy write about at her first professional job after graduate school?
She was technical writer (mechanical and computer issues)
One theme present in Amy Tan's writing
Chinese Culture, Mother-daughter relationships, fate
Who was the chess prodigy
Waverly
2
What was John Tan's (Amy's father) job?
Electrical Engineer/Baptist minister
What is the name of her memoir published in 2017
Where the Past Begins
Name of the charity rock band Amy joined
What was the original name of The Joy Luck Club novel
Wind and Water
What prize did Amy win from her essay contest when she was 8 years old?
Radio
What essay competition did Amy win when she was only 8 years old?
"What a Library Means to Me"
What was the fiction writers' workshop that Amy joined?
Squaw Valley Community
Name one award that Amy Tan has won
The Commonwealth Gold Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, F-Scott Fitzgerald Literary Award
Name the mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club
Jing-mei Woo (June) & Suyuan Woo, Lena & Ying-ying St. Clair, An-mei Hsu & Rose Hsu Jordan, Lindo & Waverly Jong
Name of the documentary released last year about Amy Tan
Unintended Memoir