![]() ![]() Mother and daughter did not speak for six months after Amy Tan left the Baptist college her mother had selected for her, to follow her boyfriend to San Jose City College. Before Amy Tan graduated from high school, she says, her family lived in 13 different houses in the San Francisco Bay area. Amy Tan, age 4 her older brother, Peter and her father, John. From left to right, Amy Tan’s mother, Daisy brother, John Jr. ![]() May 1956: The Tan family in front of their rented apartment in Oakland, California. Tan moved her surviving children to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school, but by this time mother and daughter were in constant conflict. Tragedy struck the Tan family when Amy’s father and oldest brother both died of brain tumors within a year of each other. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy and her two brothers. She was forced to leave them behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. ![]() In China, Daisy had divorced an abusive husband but lost custody of her three daughters. The harrowing early life of her mother, Daisy, inspired Amy Tan’s novel The Kitchen God’s Wife. Her father, John Tan, was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who came to America to escape the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. Her family lived in several communities in Northern California before settling in Santa Clara. FebruAmy Tan with older brother Peter in Oakland, California.Īmy Tan was born in Oakland, California. ![]()
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