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Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
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Title: Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

Release Date: 2 Feb 2021

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genre: Documentary

Director: KPJR Films

Production Companies: KPJR Films

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 8.2 (4 votes)

Cast

  • Self: Amy Tan
  • Self: Isabel Allende
  • Self: Kevin Kwan
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