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   The novel illustrates the complexities that underlie the bonds between second generation daughters and their Chinese immigrant mothers. The novel is named after a regular meeting of four Chinese American families in San Francisco.

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   Apr 28, 2021 · With the premier of Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, I’ve been reflecting upon the impact of her work on my life and many others in the decades since. The documentary — which includes poignant...

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   Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking author that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original...

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5. www.harpersbazaar.com › culture › art-books-musicThe Resilience of Amy Tan - Harper's BAZAAR

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   May 24, 2021 · Amy Tan, the author of Joy Luck Club, talks to BAZAAR.com on her PBS documentary, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, anti-Asian racism, and her literary legacy.

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   The process of writing itself can be an aggressively non-cinematic one, but “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” is as much about how the writer’s non-working life (from her memories of childhood to...

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   May 3, 2021 · The documentary “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” waxes nostalgic for that time, immersing us in the author’s meteoric success with “The Joy Luck Club” in 1989 as a blockbuster work of ...

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   • Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking author that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original interviews to tell the inspiring story of Tan’s life and career.

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   What happened to tan's mother in 'unintended memoir'?

   • In Unintended Memoir, Tan vividly recounts an episode in Switzerland when her distraught mother held a meat cleaver to her neck, threatening to kill both Tan and herself. During her teenhood, Tan was blindsided by the revelation that her mother had previously been married, leaving three daughters behind in China to escape an abusive husband.

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   • Now that Tan is a global icon, her extraordinary life has come into focus through Unintended Memoir, a PBS documentary directed by the late James Redford. Released this May to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, viewers can catch Unintended Memoir through the PBS website, via the PBS Video app, or over on Netflix.

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   Who is Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan?

   • The groundbreaking author of Joy Luck Club reflects on her legacy, channeling generational trauma into her writing, and confronting racism at its root. There is a scene toward the end of the PBS documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir where the author shows the viewer a series of bird portraits that she drew herself.

   Amy Tan Talks Joy Luck Club, Her Documentary, Confronting Racism

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   • Amy Tan: 'All You Have to Do is Write a Story That’s Believable.' The pioneering author of The Joy Luck Club, now the subject of a PBS documentary, talks about trauma, creativity, and how performing in a band with Stephen King set her free. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links.

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   What happened to tan's mother?

   • During her teenhood, Tan was blindsided by the revelation that her mother had previously been married, leaving three daughters behind in China to escape an abusive husband. Later in Tan's life, family secrets continued to surface—while researching her memoir, Tan unearthed a photograph of her grandmother attired as a Shanghai courtesan.

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   May 18, 2021 · In Unintended Memoir, Tan vividly recounts an episode in Switzerland when her distraught mother held a meat cleaver to her neck, threatening to kill both Tan and herself....