The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a beautifully written novel exploring themes of multiculturalism, complex family relationships, immigration, and friendship. The eight main characters are female, and the tales of four mothers born in China are woven with those of their daughters, all born in America. Perspective is first person, shifting with each story; each mother narrates two chapters, and each daughter recounts two, for a total of sixteen chapters. Figurative language abounds, and a sense o