The Joy Luck Club
(Amy Tan)
Amy Tan was born in Oakland,California,in 1952and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.she graduated from high school in Montreux,Switzer-land ,and recerived her master''s degree in linguistics from San Jose State University.Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club,The Kitchen God''s Wife ,The Hundred Secret Senses,and two books for children,the Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat.Her work has been translated into twenty languages.She has been married for the past twenty-two years to lou DeMattei.They live in San Francisco and New York with their cat ,Sagwa,and their dog,Mr.Zo.
Amy Tan''s novel of many voices has become required reading in high school and college contemporary literature courses - and for good reason. Its intimate look at Chinese immigrants and their children opens up a wealth of questions about cultural acclimation in a country dominated by another race. Set in San Francisco and China, the novel begins with Jing-Mei ("June"), who has been asked by her father to take her recently deceased mother''s place in the Joy Luck Club, ostensibly a mah jong gathering of her mother''s closest friends, but also an investment club, symbolizing the merging of the two cultures. June agrees, although she doesn''t feel she makes an adequate substitute for a woman who seemed so unlike her. When her "aunties" urge June to tell her sisters, women she has never met and who were left at the side of a road in China, about her mother''s life, they are troubled when she confesses that she did not know her mother except as a mother. She sees that they fear that their own daughters might not know about them, and so she impulsively promises to find her mother''s long lost children and tell them about their mother. In this way, the novel sets up its structure of interrelated stories. Although the stories of June and her mother Suyuan frame the others, those of An-Mei, Rose, Lindo, Waverly, Ying-ying, and Lena are no less important.
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