Her first story was published in 1986 in the literary magazine FM Five. She then worked as a freelance business writer and began writing fiction in 1985. to attend college, graduating from San José State University with degrees in English and linguistics. When Tan was a teenager, her mother attempted to kill Tan, her brother, and herself so that they could reunite with Tan’s deceased father and brother. Tan has spoken publicly about her fraught relationship with her mother, who was often suicidal. Fearing a curse, Tan’s mother uprooted Tan and her younger brother from their home, and the three of them traveled throughout Europe, eventually ending up in Switzerland. Tan lived with her family in the Oakland area until high school, when her older brother and father died of brain tumors within a year of each other.
Amy Tan was born in 1952 in Oakland, California, to Chinese immigrants.
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