A_Pair_Of_Tickets

A Pair Of Tickets 1. “A Pair Of Tickets” 1989 2. Born in Oakland, CA 1952, author Amy Tan wrote her very first novel “The Joy Luck Club”, which went on to become a critical success and a best seller. 3. During the war in 1944, Suyuan Woo was subjected to great tragedy. With her twin infants she fled on foot from their home in Kweilin as soon as she learned the Japanese were coming to invade and capture. For many torturous days Suyuan carried her babies with the hope of reaching ChungKing where her husband was stationed. Injured, ill, and exhausted Suyuan knew her body would soon give up and die. She did not want to see her babies suffer and slowly die so she forced herself to abandon the girls, not even a year old, on a road with hope of some caring person finding them to give them the life that she felt she could not. She continued walking with death beside her until she fainted. When she woke she was in a truck driven by rescuers headed toward ChungKing. She went to her husband’s station only to learn that he had been killed two weeks earlier. She become delirious and mad. Hospitalized, she met her suyuan, jing-mei, chwun, old, one, twins, hwa, china, yu, mother, chungking, canning, because, been, auntie, woo, twin, husband, chinese, wish, guangzhou, first, find, before, 1944, war, two, train, story, states, shanghai, luck, long-cherished, lindo, hope, each