The Joy Luck Club (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Tan
- First Published: 1989
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Marriage, California, West, U.S., Asia or Asians, Immigration or emigration, Multiculturalism, Women, Divorce, Lifestyles, Bilingualism, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Career women, Luck or misfortune
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, China
The Work
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan’s first novel, debuted to critical acclaim. It takes its place alongside Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976) as a chronicle of a Chinese American woman’s search for and exploration of her ethnic identity. The Joy Luck Club is the best-selling, accessible account of four Chinese-born mothers and their four American-born daughters. One of the women, Suyuan Woo, has died before the story opens, but the other seven women tell their own stories from their individual points of view. Critics have noted that...
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See Also:
- - For teachers, the The Joy Luck Club Lesson Plan.
- - The Joy Luck Club summary and study guide in the eNotes.
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