“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, o...”
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<p><b>'<i>The Joy Luck Club</i> is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' <i>Stylist</i></b> <p><b>Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters.</b> <p>In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. <p>Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. <p><b>'Pure enchantment' <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b></p>
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“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, o...”
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“And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now...”
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“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”
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“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
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“We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that’s how we came to call our litt...”
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