The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Taste attributes: dramafamilyslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipfish out of water/culture clash
Boxlist takeA moving, weighty novel: slow-paced and inventive. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
45 ratings
About This Book
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.
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- Amy Tan
- Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 312
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- Open Library
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