Amy Tan
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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"This literary companion offers an introduction to and overview of Amy Tan's life and writings. The main text contains encyclopedic entries covering characters, dates, historical figures and events, allusions, motifs and themes. The entries combine critical insights with generous citations from primary and secondary sources. Each entry ends with a selected bibliography. Appendices provide an overlapping timeline of historical and fictional events in Tan's work; a glossary of foreign terms; and a list of 45 writing and research topics. A comprehensive bibliography and index conclude the text."--BOOK JACKET.