As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.' Forty years later the stories and history continue. 'To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” -Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansĪmy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflixįour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's 'saying' the stories.

For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. The present paper is an attempt to explore how the Chinese mothers resolve the friction caused by dual identities with the assistance of space- geographical, social, cultural, spiritual and personal.“ The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. The novel divided into sixteen interwoven stories describes the complex relationship between four sets of mothers and daughters, Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei Woo Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan and Ying Ying St. The novel explains not only the difficulties enfolding dual cultural identities, specifically Chinese-American but also transcends cultural conflicts by depicting the generational conflicts between mothers and daughters.

Her first novel The Joy Luck Club is a bestseller and has garnered her Commonwealth Club Gold Award for fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction, The American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Through the richness of her artistic innovation and crafting, Tan has explored a new possibility for fiction writing and has enriched the literary tradition in the genre of novel writing in Chinese American literature. Amy Tan warrants a unique place in Chinese American literature as a result of her intriguing storytelling, which enriches the genre of fiction in its explorations of the connection between past and present and her characters’ struggles over family relations and identity construction.

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