Words Wednesday: Amy Tan

For today’s installment of Words Wednesday, we’re featuring an Amy Tan quote.

This Amy Tan quote is taken from her bestselling novel, The Joy Luck Club.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Published in 1989, The Joy Luck Club focuses on the life experiences of four Chinese American families living in San Francisco in the mid 1900s. More specifically, the novel focuses on the complex relationships between three Chinese immigrant mothers and four American-born daughters. The novel reads like a collection of short stories; it plays off of the structure of a mahjong game and includes phrases about the game before each vignette.

The Joy Luck Club was Amy Tan’s first novel, and for it, she was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award in 1989. The novel spent 77 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List.

Tan has gone on to write several other critically acclaimed works, including The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991) and The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2001).The Telegraph credits Tan for “sparking the trend for fiction that explores ethnic identity.”