Women’s History Month Film Series – Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

Time: 1 p.m. (film runtime 1 hour 40 minutes)
Location: Civic Center Auditorium, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE! (seating limited to the first 200 people)
Ages: All ages

In 1989, Amy Tan’s first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was published to great commercial and critical success. With the blockbuster film adaption that followed as well as additional novels, a libretto, short stories and memoirs, Ms. Tan has firmly established herself as one of the most prominent and respected American literary voices working today.

Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950s America, it would be decades before Ms. Tan would come to fully understand how her mother’s self-destructive tendencies were rooted in watching her own mother kill herself after being forced into the former marital system of concubinage. This painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. An interweaving of archival imagery, artful animation and live performance from Ms. Tan form the basis for this documentary that allows the audience to journey through Ms. Tan’s life and career in vivid, living colors.