Amazing how Amy Tan fleshes out all her characters. None of them are perfect. They're all so flawed and I started out liking Waverly Jong then I ended up being so annoyed with her. I especially love the stories of China in the war era. Those are my favourite parts of all her books. The women go thro...
It kind of says something when I want to bounce ideas about the book I'm reading off my husband, and all I can think to say is, "meh, it's fine." (He's gotten quite used to having me talk about books he hasn't had a chance to read yet, and tends to have amazing insights anyway. And if he doesn't, I ...
In the 1940s, four women recently arrived in San Francisco from China start a joy luck club, a chance to get together over dim sum and mah jong and discuss their lives. As they raise their children the gap between Chinese and American culture becomes more apparent and there are many mother daughter...
This book is a collection of multiple parallel stories having no direct relation with each other. Four women from China who have recently moved in to America for different reasons, form a common group to wave off their insecurities in a foreign country. They wanted to overlook their pain of separati...
This is a beautiful book, full of beautiful stories that center around four Chinese women (pre 1949) and their lives in China before they come to America, settle in California and have daughters of their own. Now their daughters are grown Chinese-American women, each with their own story to tell. S...
Absolutely Beautiful! I was struck by this paragraph close to the end:"And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other aga...
I've liked some of Amy Tan's other work, but The Joy Luck Club just didn't work for me. It's a story of four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters, with seven narrators (all but the one mother who has died). The book is divided into 16 chapters, perhaps more accurately described as 16...
Great book. Really insightful, just how different one provincial culture in China is different from another. Also shows that no matter how terrible we may find it here in the US, there are still places where arranged marriages, child abuse, and plural marriage are not so distant memories.
Your typical over-hyped book. I thought this book was incredibly boring and couldn't maintain my interest. I was actually shocked that I finished it..I think this was probably one of the first books that fit that OCD trait of mine!
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