Amy Tan Audio & Video

Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny.

Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter.

Best of the Best. The new audio edition of the beloved anthology features a spectacular range of stories in which truth and fantasy coexist. Spanning the globe, these tales are from writers such as Annie Proulx, Junot Diaz, Pam Houston, Rick Bass, and Alice Munro.

Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes.

To explain the markings on their faces and tails, Ming Miao tells her kittens the story of their ancestor, Sagwa of China, and how the kitten's antics foiled the Foolish Magistrate.

Panel members focused on issues involving publishing and the marketing of electronic books, and the implications for the publishing industry.

In reading from her new book "The Opposite of Fate," best-selling author Amy Tan describes how she draws from the "thanksgiving of nightmares"…

Ghosts have haunted Olivia ever since her half-sister Kwan told her stories of the frightening World of Yin.

In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club.