The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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Author: Amy TanEdition: Paperback
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Published: 2006-09-21
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Mothers and Cultures
Summary: 4 Stars
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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