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title: "The Joy Luck Club: A Novel"
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# The Joy Luck Club: A Novel

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desertcart.com: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel: 9780143038092: Tan, Amy: Books

Review: More please - This story delves deep into the nuanced layers of Asian culture, presenting a narrative that skillfully balances entertainment with profound emotional resonance. Through carefully crafted characters and vivid storytelling, the text offers readers an immersive experience that illuminates the rich traditions, complex social dynamics, and personal struggles inherent in Asian cultural contexts. The narrative weaves together elements of humor, drama, and cultural insight, creating a compelling exploration that both educates and moves the audience. leaves me wanting to see the relationship development after the June meets her long lost sisters. Amy Tan does not disappoint
Review: Great read - Great read

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,936 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Books) #50 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #245 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (10,954) |
| Dimensions  | 5.31 x 0.75 x 7.95 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0143038095 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0143038092 |
| Item Weight  | 8.8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | September 21, 2006 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ More please
*by C***C on January 28, 2026*

This story delves deep into the nuanced layers of Asian culture, presenting a narrative that skillfully balances entertainment with profound emotional resonance. Through carefully crafted characters and vivid storytelling, the text offers readers an immersive experience that illuminates the rich traditions, complex social dynamics, and personal struggles inherent in Asian cultural contexts. The narrative weaves together elements of humor, drama, and cultural insight, creating a compelling exploration that both educates and moves the audience. leaves me wanting to see the relationship development after the June meets her long lost sisters. Amy Tan does not disappoint

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read
*by L***R on February 28, 2026*

Great read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Generational and Cultural Conflct
*by G***Y on May 9, 2012*

I must have watched the film a dozen times. Something about it kept me enraptured. Maybe it was because I was myself a child of immigrants (Russian rather than Chinese). The movie spoke to me about the sadness of cultural conflict between a parent who tries so hard to instill a certain cultural awareness in a child who resists it. So I finally decided to read the book. While it was jarring, it was also a personal story that left me wondering about my own history and that of my parents. For that I am thankful to the author for sharing this story. The book is a far richer story than the movie was. By that I mean that there is more background, more history, and much more Chinese culture(s). And the language used is beautiful to read. Amy Tan manages to evoke an entire milieu with her words. But the movie was what I was used to. I tried to put aside the images from the movie, but I kept returning to it and while reading I kept thinking to myself that this was not how it was in the movie. So, the book. It is a story about 4 Chinese women and their 4 Chinese-American daughters. The book is set up in 16 chapters so that we get the perspective of all 4 mothers and their 4 daughters respectively, although since one mother has died, that part of the book is told from the perspective of the deceased woman's husband and daughter. In mainland China this woman, Suyuan Woo, was displaced during the war (Chinese-Japanese War during the 30s and 40s) and formed a Joy Luck Club that would play mahjong while sharing the joys and sadness in each others' lives. Now displaced again because of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan forms another Joy Luck Club in San Francisco in 1949, where she met the other 3 Chinese mothers through a local church. In the book, and in the film, we see the backgrounds of the mothers in China. The stories are varied although there is an undercurrent of tragedy in all of them. Those were not easy times to live in China and certainly not as a woman. We are witness to an entire sociocultural world that somehow only gets transplanted in bits and pieces to the United States. This creates serious tensions in all four of the mother-daughter relationships as the mothers and daughters live in different worlds even while inhabiting the same space. So in addition to the usual generation gap, there is also a cultural gap. The mothers have all their history from China while the daughters all have their own emotional issues to deal with as children of immigrants in a new society. As they try to understand each other, the story progresses so that by the end, when we return to China, we see that an emotional bridge has been created between mother and daughter. A bridge that allows the gap to be crossed.

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