The Joy Luck Club
A Novel
by Amy Tan
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“It is the story of four Chinese American women in San Francisco and how their mothers? struggles in the Chinese homeland made them who they were. It is a highly emotional and exceptionally beautiful story. | It is the story of four Chinese American women in San Francisco and how their mothers’ struggles in the Chinese homeland made them who they were. It is a highly emotional and exceptionally beautiful story. | This novel opened my eyes, not only to the distinct and special traditions of the ChineseAmerican culture but also to the ways in which immigrant women of different generations adapted and adjusted to life in this country.”
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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...
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“It is the story of four Chinese American women in San Francisco and how their mothers? struggles in the Chinese homeland made them who they were. It is a highly emotional and exceptionally beautiful story. | It is the story of four Chinese American women in San Francisco and how their mothers’ struggles in the Chinese homeland made them who they were. It is a highly emotional and exceptionally beautiful story. | This novel opened my eyes, not only to the distinct and special traditions of the ChineseAmerican culture but also to the ways in which immigrant women of different generations adapted and adjusted to life in this country.”
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