Penguin Orange Collection The Joy Luck Club, (Paperback)

from wang.1142

I really enjoyed the way this book was set up. The vignettes of the four different mothers and daughters made the book very easy to read. I also think this book can be interesting for many people because of the cultural diversity that it reveals to readers. The relationships between the mother an...

from CassieWinters

Tan creates endearing stories about mothers and daughters in this book. She takes us into the minds of chinese women in a way that I have never been previously exposed to in writing, which makes it very interesting to read about. The elements that she gives each character is such a human truth th...

from laytonwoman3rd

Four immigrant Chinese women (the four corners of the Mah Jong board--the four directions---the four winds) and their American daughters tell us about their lives. Sometimes we get varying versions of the same events from different generations; sometimes friends of the same generation give us con...

from jacketscoversread

My mom insisted I read The Joy Luck Club, but it was only after I saw it on the AP Lit reading list that I decided to concede to my mother's request. And I'm glad I did because The Joy Luck Club is a beautifully written book that's insightful without coming across as overly academic and stuffy. "...

from lit_chick

"The East is where things begin, my mother once told me, the direction from which the sun rises, where the wind comes from." (33) In 1949, four Chinese immigrant women, all living in San Francisco, gather regularly to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories: hence the Joy ...