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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