Amy Tan Fish Cheeks

Fish Cheeks Critique

Amy Tan, a Chinese-American writer, was born in Oakland, California in 1952. In 1989 she wrote The Joy Luck Club, her first novel which tells of the relationships and struggles between full Chinese mothers and their Americanized Chinese daughters. Although the story was fiction, most of the experiences came from Tan's real life. Besides The Joy Luck Club, Tan has written three more successful novels.

Amy Tan's "Fish Cheeks" is a short narritive about when she was a little girl and her crush came over for dinner. But it was much more than that. "Fish Cheeks" is a reflection of differences in cul...