The Joy Luck Club : Book Review

When you look at the cover of the Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, you may wonder what it’s about. It’s a catchy title, I think. The book has many settings and many different lessons to be learned. The adventures start in china but the stories are told in San Francisco, in late 1940’s.
The book starts off with the death of the mother of Jing-Mei Woo. Her mother started the joy luck club back in China, where times were rough and the club was to escape the reality and to relax with games and food. There were four members of the joy luck club in China, and when they moved to California, family and friends started to come along. Since the mother died because of a disease, Jing-Mei, who is Americanized and doesn’t know much about the group, has to attend the group meetings. Jing-Mei learns everything about her mother through the joy luck club, even after her mother’s death. She discovers she has twin sisters still in China because her mom left them there because of hard times. In Jing-Mei’s adventure, she tries to find her lost twin sisters that her mother once given up, and tell her how great her mother is. There’s a purpose why “The Joy Luck Club” got such good reviews. It shows the connection between a mother and a daughter through many adventures, and you’ll have to find out yourself to understand.