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The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

Start date: July 1, 2020

Finish date: July 31, 2020

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Nov 05, 2021 Sue K H rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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4.5 stars. I loved this. I'm pretty sure that I saw the movie many years ago when it came out, but I didn't remember anything. I plan to watch it again now. These are beautiful stories about the lost culture between generations of mothers and daughters.

"They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are ...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Mmars rated it liked it

This is one of those that I never understood the hype over. I read it in one long car ride (288 pages!) and was expecting much more depth. Good? Yeah. Obviously my mind didn't wander. But for me, it came off as fast and breezy. Kind of like a sucker that looks big, but melts in the mouth like cotton candy. Perhaps having read Maxine Hong Kingston's "Woman Warrior" shortly before this explains my disappointment. Now there was depth.

To each their own. This just wasn't for me. ...more

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Apr 01, 2024 Kate rated it liked it

3.5/5 - this is a piece of fiction written from the perspective of various mother / daughter pairs about their experiences growing up in china and immigrating to the US and the daughter’s experience growing up as the daughter of an immigrant mother.

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Feb 22, 2010 GracieKat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I don't know how accurate the book is in portraying Chinese culture but the book itself is beautifully written. I loved the seperations between past and present. ...more

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