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Amy Tan became an international bestselling author with her first novel, “The Joy Luck Club,” published in 1989. The book was later adapted into a hit film, co-written by Tan. She has since gone on to write several other best-selling novels.
The author came to the Main Stage of the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival to discuss her latest work, “Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir.” She told her interviewer, Library of Congress Literary Director Marie Arana, that when she wrote the smashingly successful “The Joy Luck Club,” “I thought: No one is going to get this book.” Q&A begins at 45:30.
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I love this author and. her books. She writes of a different culture that transported me to another world. I feel the love in
the families, the stress they endure. Thank you for expanding my world.
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