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The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, gather to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, memories that reveal these women's strength, worries, and determination, which their American-born daughters reject as irrelevant. The daughters, in turn, recall pivotal moments of their own past. They believe their mother's expectations have stymied their ability to face the uncertainties of the future. We see how the inheritance of pain and unsaid secrets have led to misunderstanding and yet how love can still undo the damage and provide reconciliation. - Flyleaf.

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920463344 Book club kit 25
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Field name Details
RSN 000052798368
ISBN 9780143124849
0143124846
Call Number 813/.54
Dates Tan, Amy
Name of Publisher New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Attachments 20 cm.
Volume Penguin drop caps T
Summary In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, gather to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, memories that reveal these women's strength, worries, and determination, which their American-born daughters reject as irrelevant. The daughters, in turn, recall pivotal moments of their own past. They believe their mother's expectations have stymied their ability to face the uncertainties of the future. We see how the inheritance of pain and unsaid secrets have led to misunderstanding and yet how love can still undo the damage and provide reconciliation. - Flyleaf.
Subject Women Societies and clubs
Reminiscing in old age
Chinese American women
Mothers and daughters
Loss (Psychology)
Female friendship
Mothers Death
Women Societies and clubs.
San Francisco (Calif)
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