The Joy luck club - jennifermaskell - home：喜福会- jennifermaskell回家.ppt

By Amy Tan?Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. Her parents, both Chinese immigrants, lived in various towns in California before eventually settling in Santa Clara. When Tan was in her early teens, her father and one of her brothers each died of a brain tumor within months of each other. During this period, Tan learned that her mother had been married before, in China. Tan’s mother had divorced her first husband, who had been abusive, and had fled China just before munist takeover in 1949. She left behind three daughters, whom she would not see again for nearly forty years.?() ?Tan’s mother was suffering from a serious illness, and Tan resolved to take a trip to China with her mother if she recovered. In 1987, after her mother returned to health, they traveled to China, where Tan’s mother was reunited with her daughters and Tan met her half-sisters. The trip provided Tan with a fresh perspective on her mother, and it served as the key inspiration for her first book, The Joy Luck Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001)Saving Fish from Drowning (2005)Rules for Virgins (2011)The Valley of Amazement (2013)Suyuan WooJing-mei (June) Woo?Founder of the Joy Luck Club?Flees China during war and leaves behind her twin daughters?Revives the club in San Francisco, where she is settled ?Takes her mother’s place in the