Category: Book The Joy Luck Club

“The Joy Luck Club” is a collection of interwoven stories that show the struggles of Chinese immigrant mothers and the ways they raise their daughters in the American way of living. The plot starts with Jing-Mei, daughter of a Chinese immigrant who searches to find her twin sisters’ address in China. In her journey, she…

Cultural Clashes in The Joy Luck Club Author Amy Tan began writing the short stories that eventually became the novel The Joy Luck Club as a way of understanding the turmoil of her relationship with her mother (Lew). Those stories eventually spawned a best-selling book and a feature film which serve to not only shed…