Frances at Ghost Word checks in from the Squaw Valley writer’s conference and also shares some of Amy Tan’s rejection letters.
The New Yorker rejected at least two of her stories, and a bunch of publishers, including Pantheon, rejected her book, which went on to become the bestselling Joy Luck Club.
“I am glad to have had a chance to see Amy Tan’s stories and proposal from THE JOY LUCK CLUB,” Pantheon Books Editor Sara Bershtel wrote Sandra Dykstra, Tan’s agent, in November 1987.
”Her work contains many lively moments and surprising images. But…”
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