Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. 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. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. The books name comes from the club formed in China by one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo, in order to lift her friends spirits and distract them from their. 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. Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories.
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