The Joy Luck Club

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who s telling the stories In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China United in loss and new hope for their daughters futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives until their own inner crises reveal how much they ve unknowingly inherited of their mothers pasts 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 tangled, 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. New Download Books The Joy Luck Club Author Amy Tan – kino-fada.fr During high school, when I did not have the life experience to fully appreciate her work, I read each of Amy Tan s books as they came out Now, years later, with many other books and various experiences under my belt, I reread The Joy Luck Club, Tan s first book, as part of my March Women s History Month lineup Following her mother s death, June Mei Woo has replaced her mother Suyuan at her monthly mah jong game Suyuan started this game and Joy Luck Club when she first immigrated to the United During high school, when I did not have the life experience to fully appreciate her work, I read each of Amy Tan s books as they came out Now, years later, with many other books and various experiences under my belt, I reread The Joy Luck Club, Tan s first book, as part of my March Women s History Month lineup Following her mother s death, June Mei Woo has replaced her mother Suyuan at her monthly mah jong game Suyuan started this game and Joy Luck Club when she first immigrated to the United States as a way to maintain her Chinese culture in a new country The other families who joined her the Hsus, Jongs, and St Claires became like family as together they celebrated festivals, children s birthdays, and indoctrinated the next generation in Chinese culture Yet, June Mei and her friends from the group, Waverly, Rose, and Lena, for the most part were interested in achieving the American dream, often times at the expense of their mothers who w...Why read The Joy Luck Club Because sometimes one needs to get in touch with his inner Chinese feminine side Amy Tan s most famous book offered ample opportunity in that regard The JLC is all about the relationships between Chinese moms and their daughters Honestly, I picked this up as part of my studies into Chinese culture My brother has been teaching English over there for a few years now and I plan on visiting one day As per usual, I like to read up on a place before the trip Some Why read The Joy Luck Club Because sometimes one needs to get in touch with his inner Chinese feminine side Amy Tan s most famous book offered ample opportunity in that regard The JLC is all about the relationships between Chinese moms and their daughters Honestly, I picked this up as part of my studies into Chinese culture My brother has been teaching English over there for a few years now and I plan on visiting one day As per usual, I like to read up on a place before the trip Some people say that spoils the surprise, but I feel like I getout of the visit that way There always seems to be plenty of surprises when you travel to the other side of the world, regardless of the ...After I read The Joy Luck Club summer required reading before sopho English in high school , I started pestering my mom about her abandoned children in mainland China I also declared that I would name my two kids after the aforementioned abandoned children Spring Flower and Spring Rain.My mom laughed in my face about the latter, saying no self respecting Chinese would give their kids such pedestrian names, and would be mock pissed about the former.The truth is that The Joy Luck Club got After I read The Joy Luck Club summer required reading before sopho English in high school , I started pestering my mom about her abandoned children in mainland China I also declared that I would name my two kids after the aforementioned abandoned children Spring Flower and Spring Rain.My mom laughed in my face about the latter, saying no self respecting Chinese would give their kids such pedestrian names, and would be mock pissed about the former.The truth is that The Joy Luck Club got some things right and got a lot of other things dramatic The stuff that rang the most true with me was the angsty rivalry between Waverly and June particularly June s meltdown at the piano recital a consistent paranoia of mine throughout childhood and Waverly s accusations toward her mother a fantasy of mine growing up.I now realize that some of my issues with my mom were probably planted by reading The Joy Luck Club others were valid insofar as they existed within the collective repressed thoughts of...It s not fashionable to profess a liking for The Joy Luck Club In both academic and literary circles, Tan has been maligned for her seeming misandry and racial self loathing, raked across the coals for her largely negative portrayal of Asian Asian American men and for marrying off all her Asian American female characters to white men She s been dismissed for writing chick lit, lightweight family melodrama laced with orientalist cliches She s even been accused of being politically It s not fashionable to profess a liking for The Joy Luck Club In both academic and literary circles, Tan has been maligned for her seeming misandry and racial self loathing, raked across the coals for her largely negative portrayal of Asian Asian American men and for marrying off all her Asian American female characters to white men She s been dismissed for writing chick lit, lightweight family melodrama laced with orientalist cliches She s even been accused of being politically reactionary As Asian A...The Joy Luck Club, Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters The three mothers and four daughters one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens The Joy Luck Club, Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chine...Those of you who read my blog are most likely aware that my relationship with my mother is not all bouncing bunnies and beautiful butterflies As an American born son raised with traditionally Asian standards, my childhood has been filled with conflicts resulting in screaming matches and bountiful tears So reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan was quite the vicarious experience though I am not Chinese nor a daughter, I could connect to several of the themes that ran throughout the novel.The Those of you who read my blog are most likely aware that my relationship with my mother is not all bouncing bunnies and beautiful butterflies As an American born son raised with traditionally Asian standards, my childhood has been filled with conflicts resulting in screaming matches and bountiful tears So reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan was quite the vicarious experience though I am not Chinese nor a daughter, I could connect to several of the themes that ran throughout the novel.The interweaving vignettes that comprise the book are too intricate to explain completely ...I feel kind of cheated out what could have been a great story by a truly dreadful narration on audible Some of the voices were totally over the top and sounded cartoonish and listening to this one became a annoying and I gave up 30% in to the book.Audible can make or break a book unfortunately this one didnt work for me as its difficult to concentrate on the words when the narrator is using cartoonish voices or on some of the characters and because this is a story where there are many I feel kind of cheated out what could have been a great story by a truly dreadful narration on audible Some of the voices were totally over the top and sounded cartoonish and listening to this one became a annoying and I gave up 30% in to the book.Audible can make or break a book unfortunately this one didnt work for me as its difficult to concentrate on the words when the narrator is using cartoonish voices or on some of the characters and because this is a story where there are many characters and many stories this can become quite tedious However the great thing about audible is you can return the book if for whatever reason you are not enjoying the experience and I th...Ok, I admit it, I was obsessed with Amy Tan my first year of college I learned all there was about her, read The Joy Luck Club, and finally I gave up hope.As a freshmen, at Linfield College, I was astonished that Amy Tan could have possibly walked the same hallowed halls of Melrose, perhaps sat in the same offices in the English department, or read a book in Northrup s astro turf room My daydreams were filled with her coming over to my dorm room to have tea and talk literature She would Ok, I admit it, I was obsessed with Amy Tan my first year of colle...I m not generally someone who rereads a lot of books, but 30 years seems to be the mark at which I become curious about whether I ll still feel the same way about some of my favorites Amy Tan is an interesting case, because she s still writing novels, I ve read nearly all of them, and I ve liked them all there aren t many authors I can say that about It s a potential landmine to rere...Amy Tan s very successful first novel was a national best seller, a finalist for the National Book Award, and was made into a movie It is a novel about four Chinese mothers who came to America during World War II, and their four Chinese American daughters The mothers quietly hold on to their past, their culture, and it s traditions, while adapting to their American life They try to pass the essence of what is most important about their old culture on to their daughters, who, being born in Amy Tan s very successful first novel was a national best seller, a finalist for the National Book Award, and was made into a movie It is a novel about four Chinese mothers who came to America during World ...

• English
• 11 November 2018
Amy Tan
• Paperback
• 288 pages
• 0143038095
• Amy Tan
• The Joy Luck Club