Ten signs you're drinking a little too much: Here's how to know when enjoying the odd glass of wine slips into something harmful. Chances are that you consider yourself a moderate drinker. Perhaps you enjoy the odd glass of wine after work, or have a few pints on Saturdays only and abstain for the rest of the week.
In 1985, in an attempt to find meaning in life, she started to write fiction in her spare time. She attended a fiction workshop at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. There she met writer Molly Giles, who gave her advice on a flawed short story with too many inconsistent voices and too many beginnings of stories.
Before Amy Tan wrote The Joy Luck Club in 1989, well-known feminist writers had explored the mother/daughter relationship: Paule Marshall in Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959); Alice Walker in Meridian (1976); Jamaica Kincaid in Annie John (1985); and Toni Morrison in Beloved (1987).