![]() The tales, particularly those set in China, are by turns beautiful and harrowing. The tone switches from mundane to magical to darkly humorous. All four sections open with a Chinese fable, then shift to the stories of four pairs of mothers and daughters. Introduction to the BookĪmy Tan's The Joy Luck Club was written as a collection of short stories, but the tales of memory, fate, and self-discovery interlock to create a colorful mural that reads like a novel. The novel tells the story of new waves of immigrants who are changing and enriching America. Published in 1989 by an unknown first-time writer, The Joy Luck Club became a reviewers' darling and then an international best seller. ![]() ![]() An intricately patterned novel whose author thought she was writing a short-story collection, it is also a mother-daughter saga by a writer whose own mother wanted her to be anything but a writer. ![]() Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club is itself a joyful study in luck. ![]()
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