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The Joy Luck Club
Author: Amy Tan
Book Information
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
Rating: 2

ISBN-13: 9780896218802 - ISBN-10: 0896218805
Publication Date: 1/1990

Book Description:
"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

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Vanessa T. (VanessaEden) from BEREA, KY wrote on 1/18/2008...


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.