Mothers who left China and daughters raised in California speak in turn across this novel, and the distance between them is the real subject of Amy Tan's best-known book.
Built from linked stories rather than a single plot line, The Joy Luck Club moves between a mahjong club in San Francisco and earlier lives in China, letting each narrator fill in what the others cannot say. Tan writes about language, food, superstition and marriage with humour as well as grief, and the short-story structure makes the book easy to read in sittings.
Reading notes:
• Linked narratives shared among four mothers and four daughters
• Chinese and Chinese American settings placed side by side
• Themes of migration, translation and inherited expectation
• Chapters that stand alone, which suits group discussion
A natural choice for book clubs, readers of family fiction and students of diaspora writing, stocked by Boipoka.
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