Amy Tan

Amy Tan, a Chinese American novelist, portrays in her short essay “Mother Tongue” that in the world today, there are many multicultural and bilingual people. For many of these people, they struggle with what social or cultural community they belong to. These include the choices they have to make about what kind of language they…

A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan Amy Tan is an author who uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships, where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized –yellow on the surface and white underneath. In her book, the mother tries to convey their…