the joy luck club took place at the joy luck club.
the joy luck club took place at the joy luck club.
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the joy luck club
the joy luck club consists of sixteen interlocking stories about the lives of four chinese immigrant mothers and their four american-born daughters. in 1949, the four mothers meet at the first chinese baptist church in san francisco and agree to continue to meet to play mah jong. they call their mah jong group the joy luck club. the stories told in this novel revolve around the joy luck club women and their daughters. structurally, the novel is divided into four major sections, with two sections focusing on the stories of the mothers and two sections on the stories of the daughters.
the joy luck club (novel)
the first section, "feathers from a thousand li away", introduces the joy luck club through daughter jing-mei woo, whose late mother suyuan woo founded the joy luck club, and focuses on the four mothers. jing-mei relates the story of how her mother suyuan was the wife of an officer in the kuomintang during world war ii and how she was forced to flee from her home in kweilin and abandon her twin daughters. suyuan later found out her first husband died, remarried to canning woo, and immigrated to the united states where jing-mei was born. suyuan and canning attempted to find suyuan's daughters, and canning assumed that suyuan had given up hope. jing-mei, who has been asked to take her mother's place in the joy luck club, learns from the other mothers that her half-sisters are alive. they ask that jing-mei go to china and meet her sisters, and tell them about suyuan's death.
the joy luck club (novel)