The Yale Law School professor talks about how she’s always wanted to write fiction — and years ago felt “scooped” by “The Joy Luck Club.”
Just over a decade ago, law professor Amy Chua — who, up until that point, had mostly written about legal matters and international relations — shook up the public with her memoir, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” It told a coming-of-age story, about Chua’s strict child rearing philosophy and her clashes with her daughters. It was launched with a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Chua followed it up in 2014 with another eyebrow-raiser about immigrant culture and ambition, “The Triple Package.
I went to this Wall Street law firm . I was miserable. I sunk into this whole quasi-depression. I tried to write a novel. It was going to be a mother-daughter Chinese immigrant story. Then “The Joy Luck Club,” by Amy Tan, came out.No! In fact, I felt so jealous of her. It was great, I loved it, but I thought, “That’s what I was trying to do! She scooped me!”
So that brings me to “The Golden Gate.” When covid hit, I just had all this time on my hands. I was visiting my parents’ house, and the idea for the plot just hit me. The idea of an unreliable narrator: the grandmother, who is told from the beginning that one of her three granddaughters is a murderer, but they don’t know which one.It’s the most fun thing that I’ve ever done. It was difficult. But it’s not un-lawyerly.
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