An Evening with Amy Tan

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · 7:30 PM PDT · Washington Center for the Performing Arts

Performing Artsspoken word / readingauthor talkliterarystorytelling$29–$75

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Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and other novels exploring Chinese-American identity and family, reads and discusses her work at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Olympia. If you want to hear directly from a writer who's shaped how American literature talks about immigrant experience and intergenerational conflict, this is the event for it.

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Amy Tan
CLick for signed COPY OF THE Backyard Bird Chronicles Born in the U.S. in 1952 to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended five colleges: Linfield College, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.A.
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Amy Tan on THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES

Venue

Washington Center for the Performing Arts

512 Washington St SE · Olympia

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