Audiobooks by Amy Tan

Life Lessons from Mom: For the Man You'll Become

"A Mother’s Enduring Wisdom for Her Son. INSPIRATION, GUIDANCE, and LESSONS for a MEANINGFUL LIFE. This heartfelt collection offers powerful truths, invaluable insights, and practical lessons through anecdotes, personal reflections, and uplifting stories. It’s a must-read for anyone seeking clarity, purpose, and direction in life. Discover how to: - Grow Personally and Spiritually: Build self-awareness, make ethical choices, and draw strength from faith. - Strengthen Relationships: Foster lasting connections rooted in trust, respect, and heartfelt communication. - Overcome Challenges with Resilience: Turn adversity into opportunities for growth. - Navigate Life’s Transitions with Confidence: Thrive in every stage, from career changes and leadership roles to family and entrepreneurship. - Live a Meaningful Life: Pursue passions, prioritize well-being, and create a lasting legacy. - Achieve Balance: Embrace the 4-Quadrants of Personal Growth—spiritual, social, intellectual, and financial. Whether you’re a son seeking guidance or a parent sharing wisdom, this book is a powerful companion for navigating life’s uncertainties and achieving greatness. The perfect gift for sons, partners, friends, or anyone searching for inspiration and guidance to live a meaningful life. While no book has all the answers, this one provides a wellspring of hope, support, and actionable inspiration. From mother to son, these are life lessons every man needs. A loving reminder: You are never alone, and you are capable of extraordinary things."

Amy Tan (Author), Amirah Dent (Narrator)

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Revisiting the Depths: Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace: A Journey of Transformation

"You Need to Listen this Award-Winning Memoir of Healing and Self-Discovery Amy Tan masterfully blends self-help with a powerful story of healing and growth in this inspirational book. If you’re looking for healing books for women, men, and even young adults. A traumatic first dive dampens her love of the ocean. Thirty years later, the ocean is still in her blood, but fear holds her back from trying again. Unable to ignore the lure of the waters and the beauty of the ocean, she decides to overcome her fear and reclaim her life. On the beautiful, little-known Tioman Island, she gathers her courage. Guided by her divemaster and supported by her husband, Amy learns to trust herself. With every dive, the ocean inspires her to overcome all that holds her back – and not just in the water. Each trip below the surface challenges her fear and helps her discover who she is truly meant to be. Get inspired with this growth mindset book to face your fears, find peace, and jump into life with your whole heart. If you only listen to one memoir this year, make it this one – discover the lessons learned in the depths of the ocean and unlock the keys to personal growth and spiritual growth."

Amy Tan (Author), AMIRAH DENT (Narrator)

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Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir

"From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gathers together evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia – the real reason behind an I.Q. test she took at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother – and, for the first time publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen. Written with candour and characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth."

Amy Tan (Author), Amy Tan (Narrator)

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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

"Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer, The Opposite of Fate offers vivid portraits of choices, attitudes, charms, and luck in action--a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we all face today."

Amy Tan (Author), Amy Tan (Narrator)

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The Valley of Amazement

"New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese villageShanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West—until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.Back in 1897 San Francisco, Violet’s mother, Lucia, chooses a disastrous course as a sixteen-year-old, when her infatuation with a Chinese painter compels her to leave her home for Shanghai. Shocked by her lover’s adherence to Chinese traditions, she is unable to change him, despite her unending American ingenuity.Fueled by betrayals, both women refuse to submit to fate and societal expectations, persisting in their quests to recover what was taken from them: respect; a secure future; and, most poignantly, love from their parents, lovers, and children. To reclaim their lives, they take separate journeys—to a backwater hamlet in China, the wealthy environs of the Hudson River Valley, and, ultimately, the unknown areas of their hearts, where they discover what remains after their many failings to love and be loved.Spanning more than forty years and two continents, The Valley of Amazement transports listeners from the collapse of China’s last imperial dynasty to the beginning of the Republic and recaptures the lost world of old Shanghai through the inner workings of courtesan houses and the lives of the foreigners living in the International Settlement, both erased by World War II. A deeply evocative narrative of the profound connections between mothers and daughters, imbued with Tan’s characteristic insight and humor, The Valley of Amazement conjures a story of inherited trauma, desire and deception, and the power and obstinacy of love."

Amy Tan (Author), Amy Tan, Joyce Bean, Nancy Wu (Narrator)

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Rules for Virgins: Wherein Magic Gourd Advises Young Violet on How to Become a Popular Courtesan Whi

"In her startlingly sensual story, 'Rules for Virgins'—this jewel of a tale is the first fiction she has published in six years—beloved bestselling author Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter) takes us deep into the illicit world of 1912 Shanghai, where beautiful courtesans mercilessly compete for the patronage of wealthy gentlemen. For the women, the contest is deadly serious, a perilous game of economic survival that, if played well, can set them up for life as mistresses of the rich and prominent. There is no room for error, however: erotic power is hard to achieve and harder to maintain, especially in the loftiest social circles. Enter veteran seducer, Magic Gourd, formerly one of Shanghai's 'Top Ten Beauties' and now the advisor and attendant of Violet, an aspiring but inexperienced courtesan. Violet may have the youth and the allure, but Magic Gourd has the cunning and the knowledge without which the younger woman is sure to fail. These ancient tricks of the trade aren't written down, though; to pass them on to her student, Magic Gourd must reach back into her own professional past, bringing her lessons alive with stories and anecdotes from a career spent charming and manipulating men who should have known better but rarely did. The world of sexual intrigue that Tan reveals in Rules for Virgins' actually existed once, and she spares no detail in recreating it. But this story is more than intriguing (and sometimes shocking) historical literary fiction. Besides inviting us inside a life that few writers but Tan could conjure up, the intimate confessions of Magic Gourd add up to a kind of military manual for the War of the Sexes' female combatants. The wisdom conveyed is ancient, specific, and timeless, exposing the workings of vanity and folly, calculation and desire that define the mysterious human heart. * * * Amy Tan is the author of the bestselling novels The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning as well as The Opposite of Fate, a memoir. Her novel is The Valley of Amazement' (Ecco, 2013)."

Amy Tan (Author), Nancy Wu (Narrator)

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American Classics

Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, John Sayles, Joyce Carol Oates (Author), Carmen De Lavallade, Christine Baranski, David Strathairn, Freda Foh Shen, Jerry Stiller, Malachy Mccourt, Rene Aubergenois, Stockard Channing (Narrator)

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The Joy Luck Club

"For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores the deep, complicated, and sometimes painful connections between mothers and daughters. Amy Tan entices listeners to immerse themselves into the complex lives of these women."

Amy Tan (Author), Gwendoline Yeo (Narrator)

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The Chinese Siamese Cat

"A naughty white kitten, Sagwa, comes from a long line of royal Chinese cats. Her mischief changes the spirit of a cruel magistrate and helps shape the future for her ancestors. This beautiful story illustrates why Siamese cats are really Chinese cats and why their faces, ears, paws, and tails turn darker as they grow up Read by the author, Amy Tan's light, airy voice enchants listeners of all ages with this charming bedtime story."

Amy Tan (Author), Amy Tan (Narrator)

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The Joy Luck Club

"For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores the deep, complicated, and sometimes painful connections between mothers and daughters. Read by Amy Tan, this recording of The Joy Luck Club entices listeners to immerse themselves into the complex lives of eight women bound by heartbreak, history, friendship, and familial love."

Amy Tan (Author), Amy Tan (Narrator)

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The Kitchen God's Wife

"For decades—in China and in San Francisco—Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths—not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust—about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter, about the secret that daughters keep, and about the miraculous resiliency of love. Read by Amy Tan, this second novel by the author of The Joy Luck Club was a New York Times bestseller."

Amy Tan (Author), Amy Tan (Narrator)

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The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan (Author), Gwendoline Yeo (Narrator)

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