Jing-Mei doubts that she knew her mother well enough to adequately tell her mother’s story. They give her money to go to China to meet her sisters and tell them about their mother. While playing mahjong, the Aunties tell Jing-Mei that the lost daughters have been found. Jing-Mei grew up knowing that her mother had lost two baby girls in China before she emigrated to America, but she doesn’t know the full story behind this tragedy. Her daughter Jing-Mei is asked to take her mother’s place at the mahjong table with the An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Most of the novel takes place in the late 1980s with lengthy flashbacks to the mothers’ youths in war-torn China.Īt the beginning of the novel, Suyuan Woo, the founder of the Joy Luck Club, has recently died. The mothers met in San Francisco’s Chinatown after World War II and formed a social club called the Joy Luck Club. Each part begins with an allegorical story that distills the themes of the stories that follow.
The Joy Luck Club is divided into four parts, each containing four stories told in first-person point of view exploring the conflicts of four mother-daughter pairs.
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