• Ted talk • Where does creativity hide?
The Joy Luck Club
• The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan.
• It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong.
• Four sections and sixteen chapters.
Characters
• Mother • Su-yuan Woo 吴素云
• Daughter • Jing-Mei Woo 吴精妹 June

• Thank you
Amy Tan & The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Born February 19, 1952 Explore mother-daughter relationships and the ChineseAmerican experience. The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning and The Valley of Amazement. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.
• Moral ambiguity • Buddhist fisherman says. • Way of rationalizing that is they are saving the fish from drowning.
Personal life
• born in Oakland, California. • When Tan was 15 years old, her older brother Peter and father both died of brain tumors within eight months of each other. • Move to Switzerland,
Writing style
• controversy
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• www.rockbottomremainders. com
• Q. What chords does the band know? A. "E." and "A." Q. What kind of songs does the band play? A. Mainly songs that use the chords "E." and "A." • Q. How often does the band practice? A. Practice?