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This novel describes the lives of four Asian women who fled China in the 1940s and their contentious relationships with their four very Americanized daughters. It is a moving testament of the differences in generation and culture.

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Amy Tan, whose Chinese name, An-mei, means "blessing from America," was born in 1952 in Oakland, California, the middle child and only daughter of John and Daisy Tan, who came to America from China in the late 1940s.

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