The Joy Luck Club
Ratings23
Average rating3.7
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Ratings23
Average rating3.7
‘The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that’s impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum’ Stylist Discover Amy Tan’s moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. 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.
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Liked: I loved the stories concerning the mothers. The immigrant experience and how that experience will shape how you raise your children.
Disliked: The stories of the mothers vs. the daughters did not intertwine as well as I hoped. The daughters all married or dated very stereotypical white men. I know it happens, hell, I am a product of it myself. I just wanted a little more background as to why.
The daughters were all pretty docile, submissive and indecisive. Are we though? ;) Not a stereotype I recognize from my family or friends.
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