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Tan is best known for her novel ''''. Her newest book '' Saving Fish From Drowning '', explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition into the jungles of Burma. In addition, she has written two children's books ''The Moon Lady'' (1992) and '' The Chinese Siamese Cat '' (1994). She has appeared in a short spot on PBS encouraging children to write. Born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John (a Baptist minister) and Daisy (a Shanghai nurse), Tan was fourteen when her father and elder brother died of Brain Tumour s. With her mother and younger brother Peter, Tan moved to Montreux , Switzerland shortly afterward. She received a Master's Degree in Linguistics at San Jose State University and her first job was as a children's Speech Therapist . Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing fell asleep for the third time during one of their sessions, Tan quit therapy and took up fiction writing instead. Since turning 40, Tan has been a member of the Garage Band Rock Bottom Remainders with Dave Barry and Stephen King , who dedicated his non-fiction book On Writing to her. She married Lou DeMattei in 1974 . Tan has suffered from neurological Lyme Disease since 1999, a struggle she has chronicled on her website and in interviews with the media[http://www.canlyme.com/amy.html . She has become an outspoken advocate on behalf of patients with the disease. SELECTED WORKS
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