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Amy Tan - October 7, 2004

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GOOD LIT

Amy Tan
Author, The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate

In conversation with Barbara Lane, Good Lit Series Director

Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club catapulted her to literary stardom, and subsequent fiction has earned her a permanent place in the Bay Area's writerly firmament. Recently Tan published her first collection of essays (and musings), The Opposite of Fate, and sat down to discuss the book, her life of writing and involvement with the film The Joy Luck Club, as well as her own battle with depression and other crippling effects of Lyme disease.

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