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Trivia-on-Book: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends!
In The Joy Luck Club, four Chinese-American families living in San Francisco start a club in which they play the Chinese game called Mahjong and enjoy Chinese delicatessen. The mothers and daughters of the families share their stories in the book, creating a structure similar to the one of the game of Mahjong.
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck...
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A Study Guide for Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
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PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Writer Amy Tan’s hit debut novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), catapulted her to commercial and critical success. Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950’s America, Amy Tan’s painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. Journey through the groundbreaking author’s life and career with archival imagery, artful animation and original interviews.
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St. Martin's Press
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2024.
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"This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had childrenof her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's...
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