The Nation, April 24th, 1989
Valerie Miner's fifth novel, All Good Women (The Crossing Press), has just appeared in paperback. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. THE JOY LUCK CLUB. By Amy Tan. Putnam. 288pp. $18.95.
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories are the work of first generation (American-born) daughters of immigrant mothers. Tan, who was born in 1952 in Oakland, sets her impressive first novel in northern California. Yamamoto, born in Redondo Beach in 1921, concentrates on the southern California landscape in a collection of fine stories span...
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