NPR

Amy Tan's bird obsession led to a new book — and keeping mealworms in her fridge

If you know author Amy Tan for The Joy Luck Club — a novel about Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco — her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, might seem like a deviation. That's because ...
The Boston Globe

Amy Tan reflects on her new nonfiction book. ‘Birds were fun ... fiction writing is torment.’

The ‘Joy Luck Club’ author talks about her obsession with birds in her backyard and what it means to write a book that isn’t about Chinese culture. For Chinese Americans of a certain generation, Amy ...
The Boston Globe

‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ is a lively, unexpectedly moving account of the novelist’s feathered friends

“These pages are a record of my obsession with birds,” writes Amy Tan in the preface to “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” and “obsession” is no overstatement. Her new book, culled from “nine personal ...
Orange County Register

Amy Tan hopes ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ makes you a conservationist

If you didn’t know the line “Hope is the thing with feathers” had been written by poet Emily Dickinson, you might think it was the marketing tagline for ”The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” a collection of ...
The New York Times

Christian Cooper and Amy Tan on How Birding Brings Them Joy

The two discussed their shared love of birding in a free live virtual event as part of the New York Times summer birding project. Christian Cooper and Amy Tan came to birding from very different paths ...