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    Amy Tan Isn’t Perfect

    Sep 11, 2021 2 minutes
    Interview by MONICA ENG
    Photograph by JOSH TELLES/MASTERCLASS

    Q: The Joy Luck Club has become the great Chinese American novel. What were the pros and cons of authoring the first big commercial Chinese American literary hit?

    I was cast in the limelight as being some sort of expert about Chinese Americans or immigrants or mothers and daughters. With

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