Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Tune into host Vick Hope and a line-up of incredible guests on our weekly podcast full of unmissable book recommendations. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. 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. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. She has written several other books, including The Kitchen Gods Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetters Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. 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. In 1993, Tans adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories.
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