The Joy Luck Club Research Paper

The Joy Luck Club is a book written by Amy Tan, a New York Times Bestseller author. The book was published in 1989 by the Penguin Books. The Joy Luck Club was a big hit. According to The Facts on file companion to the American Novel “it was very rich in literary scene”. They also mentioned that, “the novel became an instant success with both critics and the reading public, remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for nine months and becoming standard fare in American University literature classes; it was nominated for both Book critica and Los Angeles Times awards. Amy Tan has become well-know not only for her complex portraits of chinese and chinese and chinese-american character, but also for depiction of the relationships between

Her mother and three other women who had a horrible past, living in china during World War 2.The book explains and tells the story of each of the four women and what they had to go through to get to where they're at, in San Francisco. It also tells the stories of what their daughters are going through or went through. Later in the book it explains how June’s mother tracked down her first husband and her twin girls before her death and the members of the club convince June to take a trip to China to meet her half sisters and her mother’s first husband. When June takes the trip to China and meets her half sisters, she explains why their mother had to leave them behind. A visit to her mother’s first husband made June realize how what her mother had to go through and how hard she had to fight to get to America. After the four women got to America and meet each other, June’s mother started the The Joy Luck Club where the women would eat, play mahjong, a chinese table game, and talked about their losses coming to the United States and how they never lost hope. When June takes her mother’s place on the table she learns from her “aunt's” how her mother was a strong women with many secrets. At the end of the book June now has a new perspective of her mother and feels bad for always thinking her mother was just another chinese women with her “crazy”