Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.
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Genre: Biography, Documentary
Director: James Redford
Actors: Amy Tan, Isabel Allende, Kevin Kwan
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