Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa, which has now been adapted as a PBS production. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.
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Mothers and Cultures,
This review is from: The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
An expression of the relationships between mother, daughter, and cultural differences, Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club immerses its audience in a collection of short tales. Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio, the literary mosaic connects several abstracts into one continuous exploration of the communal, yet separate, personal life account. Unlike Anderson's tale, Tan has organized her narratives into a coherent, immediately understandable pattern: the stories of mothers, then daughters, and finally a confrontation in the daughters' adulthood lives and the issues newly prevalent to their current situations. From the post-complete reading perspective, the observer can now step back to see the larger message Tan seems to convey through the redemption of newer generations reconciling with the older.
A quick read, the primary difficulty in interpretation being the required, constant effort to connect the names of protagonists to their specific stories.
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a fascinating read - recommended (especially if you've ever had a mother),
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"The Joy Luck Club" is truly a wonderful novel. On top of the interesting cultural aspects and compelling storyline, the book explores the relationship between mother and daughter in a way that all cultures and generations can relate to on some level. The mixture of humor and sadness made for a memorable read. The characters seemed like real people, which made their individual stories that much more interesting and powerful. Usually it takes me a long time to get really into a novel, but "The Joy Luck Club" hooked me after a few pages. The book opens with the fascinating story of June's mother and proceeds to portray a variety of stories that beautifully weave together throughout the novel. I definitely recommend this book, especially if you've ever had a mother.
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