Who Are The Four Chinese American Immigrants

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she was born in 1952 in Oakland, California, the middle child and only daughter of John and Daisy Tan, who came to America from China in the late 1940s. The family moved nearly every year, living in Oakland, Fresno, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Although John and Daisy rarely socialized with their neighbors, Amy and her brothers ignored their parents' objections and tried hard to fit into American society. She published The Kitchen God's Wife , The Moon Lady and her successful work the joy luck club .
The novel focuses on four chinese American immigrants families moved to live in San francisco. They ran from china to America because of war . The first section begins with “Feathers from a Thousand LiAway” tells the tale of a Chinese woman

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