As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.' Forty years later the stories and history continue. 'To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” -Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansĪmy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflixįour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's 'saying' the stories. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever.

From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.“ The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.” Forty years later the stories and history continue. “To despair was to wish back for something already lost.

Beijing Language and Culture University Pressįor readers of Amy Tan’s bestselling novel, The Valley of Amazement, and her new memoir, Where the Past Begins, revisit her classic tale of mothers and daughtersįour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s “saying” the stories.

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