Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

‘Blissfully funny’ * India Knight, Sunday Times *
When an entire nation reacts so strongly to something you know you have hit a nerve. And Amy did … she should be applauded for raising these issues with a thoughtful, humorous and authentic voice * Sheryl Sandberg (author of LEAN IN), Time magazine’s ‘100 most influential people in the world’ *
‘Millions of British children could use a Tiger Mother in their tank’ * Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph *
‘A treat from first to last: ruefully funny, endlessly self-deprecating, riven with ironies .. I relished this memoir’ * Independent *
‘Entertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking’ * New York Times *

Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, translated into eight languages, was a New York Times bestseller, an Economist Best Book of the Year and one of the Guardian’s Top Political Reads of 2003. Her second book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall, was a critically acclaimed Foreign Affairs bestseller. Amy Chua has appeared frequently on radio and television and her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and the Wilson Quarterly. She lives with her husband, two daughters and two Samoyeds in New Haven, Connecticut.

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