The Joy Luck Club

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Mothers, daughters: intimate, interwoven cross-generational saga.

Reading "The Joy Luck Club" is akin to uncovering a deep familial tapestry, where every thread is a story wrung from the heart. Amy Tan renders a narrative that invites you into a circle of shared history and resilience. As you navigate the complexities of each mother-daughter relationship, you understand the universal and poignant themes of hope, identity, and the powerful bonds that both challenge and strengthen family connections.

  • California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (1989)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1989)
  • Northern California Book Awards for Fiction (1989)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1989)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1989)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Joy Luck Club

Regular price ₱440.55
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ISBN: 9780143038092
Authors: Amy Tan
Publisher: Penguin Book
Date of Publication: 2019-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Historical Romance
Goodreads rating: 3.97
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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 more tangled, more 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.
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Mothers, daughters: intimate, interwoven cross-generational saga.

Reading "The Joy Luck Club" is akin to uncovering a deep familial tapestry, where every thread is a story wrung from the heart. Amy Tan renders a narrative that invites you into a circle of shared history and resilience. As you navigate the complexities of each mother-daughter relationship, you understand the universal and poignant themes of hope, identity, and the powerful bonds that both challenge and strengthen family connections.

  • California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (1989)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1989)
  • Northern California Book Awards for Fiction (1989)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1989)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1989)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.