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Consider reading other books by Amy Tan, including The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Bonesetter’s Daughter.
Consider reading other books by Asian-American authors like Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.
Consider pairing The Joy Luck Club with The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd which is also about mother-daughter relationships.
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The Question and Answer section for The Joy Luck Club is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
When Waverly and her first husband Marvin Chen eloped, Waverly's mother picked him apart until Waverly too saw his flaws and lost interest.
The fact that many of the mothers and daughters have unhappy marriages creates a common ground on which they can relate. But marriage has different meanings for each generation. For the mothers, it is permanent and not always based on love....
In Chapter One, June goes to the Hsus' house, where she takes her mother's place in the Joy Luck Club. Although she is only one generation younger than everyone else, she feels out of place, as she realizes that her mother has made excuses for her...
