The Joy Luck Club - Large Print Author:Amy Tan Four mothers, four daughters, four families... 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 with new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who ... more »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.
As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined.
Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties.« less
I love this book. I think women will find themselves in this book. It will help you appreciate yourself and appreciate your mothers; it will help you appreciate women.