The Joy Luck Club (Cliffs Notes) - ISBN: 0822006855


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		"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." - Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth

	The Joy Luck Club (Cliffs Notes)
	by Amy Tan, Laurie N. Rozakis

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Product Details

Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 80 pages

Edition: Cliffs Notes Edition

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

ISBN: 0822006855

Release Date: Jan 5, 1990

Average Reader Review:

(Based on 1 review.)

In Brief
Chapters in this novel alternate "between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters in California. . . . The members of the Joy Luck Club are four aging 'aunties' who gather regularly in San Francisco to play mah-jongg, eat Chinese food and gossip about their children. When one of the women dies, her daughter, Jing-mei (June) Woo, is drafted to sit in for her at the game. But she feels uncomfortably out of place in this unassimilated environment. . . . Slowly she begins to comprehend how, after all they have endured, {the aunties} might well be anxious and concerned lest all cultural continuity between their pasts and their children's futures be lost." (N Y Times Book Rev)

From The Publisher
"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."

WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

Annotation
In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40 years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club. Their stories ultimately display the double happiness that can be found in being both Chinese and American. First serials to Ladies' Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, and San Francisco Focus. Now available.