The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

A Novel

    • 4.3 • 770 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians

Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix


Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.

With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1989
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

CLE2CLT ,

Joy of reading.

I've read this book many times before.
It's a good story. Yes, drama-filled, right from the beginning until the end.

Shyne444 ,

great book

Written in a conversational tone, it’s easy to see yourself in every character whether that be their flaws or way of thinking. Joy luck club is an amazing lesson. Amazing read.

Lainie Amethyst ,

Disappointing

I was really looking forward to reading this book and I suggested it to my book club. I’m not sure what the problem was, but it was very difficult to read and I had to work hard to pay attention. Maybe it’s cultural or maybe I just don’t like, the story. I would not recommend this to my friends.

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