Amy Tan Blog

Amy Tan seems to have been as affected by her mother as her the characters in her book were. And it seems that Amy Tan can see ghosts and hear them while other people cannot. And apparently she hears the Jeopardy theme sung right behind her back by some unexplained person or persons. Eventually Amy Tan talks to her husband about all the noises she hears and he simply claims that it is something like their house being old. While Tan’s mother says something completely different. Apparently her mother states that Amy did really have ghosts in her house because of her work and how idiotic it was to Chinese culture. And then Tan pissed her mom off more by writing some story about a women being raped and Tan’s mother took it to heart, but not in a good way. Tan’s mother would say to her that she doesn’t know anything about her grandmother and would ask very personal questions. And apparently Tan’s mother believed that her grandmother acted as a sort of guide for Tan and would tell her what to write on the computer.