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Mientras esta a punto de divorciarse, Olivia va contandonos la tranformacion que sufrio su vida cuando irrumpio en ella la extrana Kwan, su hermanastra, la hija que Jack Lee, su padre, habia abandonado en China cuando emigro a Estados Unidos. Kwan no podra jamas distanciarse del mundo que la vio nacer y pronto aparecera ante los demas como un ser algo trastornado. ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Joy Luck Club, the Bonesetter's Daughter, the Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish From Drowning, the Hundred Secret Senses. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game. In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York. During the Second World War, Suyuan lives in Kweilin while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). She starts the original Joy Luck Club with her three friends to cope with the war. There is little to eat, but they pretend it is a feast, and talk about their hopes for the future. On the day of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan leaves her house with nothing but a bag of clothes, a bag of food, and her twin baby daughters.During the long journey, Suyuan contracts such severe dysentery that she feels certain she will die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=699430 ... Read more

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With the publication of her first novel in 1989, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics, and is very much concerned with issues of matrilineage and the ultimate triumphant over female victimization.

The title, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Amy Tan, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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Bonesetter's Daughter
My daughter enjoyed the book.It was on a reading list. Odd title - good story. ... Read more

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Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The ?Bonesetter's DaughterAmy Tan's best-selling novelinto a pioneering operawhich debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own wordscaptured by Ken SmithAmy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace describe an incredible journey that took them to Chinawhere local village traditionsas well as singersmusiciansand designers became an integral part of the creative process. This one-of-a-kind book includes the complete libretto for the operawritten by Amy Tan. ... Read more

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Amy Tan: Weavre of Asian-American Tales
Books from this "Authors Teens Love" series are both informative and appealing for youth, because they include authors that teens really like and read, like the one on Amy Tan. The text is simple and straight-forward and includes many photographs from her life growing up. Her humanitarian work will be of interest to young adults, as well as,the section, In Her Own Words, a personal interview with Amy. The chronoloygy, awards, chapter notes and further reading & internet sites will enable readers to discover even more about Amy Tan. Recommended ... Read more

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The Broom Closet explores the sacred, psychological, erotic, and sometimes murderous power of housework, using surprising examples from postfeminist novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan. By juxtaposing the novels and their authors' lives with general social and historical context, the book outlines the many ways domestic ritual continues to shape women's consciousness-and either foil or reflect women's creativity. ... Read more

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Explores the life and career of author Amy Tan, from her childhood in Oakland, California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer. ... Read more

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reader's opinion
I loved this book, i have read it about four times. I think that Amy Tan does a very good job of portraying the Asian American families in the United States.I related to this book a lot, those of you that havesimilar problems should read this book.Of course everyone has heard aboutthe movie, but i feel the book is a lot better.If you have heard of anyTan's other book "The Kitchen God's Wife", pick it up, itaddressing a lot of the same aspects as in "The JOy LUck Club."

i was forced to read this for my english class.
There are too many characters with similiar-sounding names...it is confusing.

This book is grossly overrated
The book provides a detailed description of the lives of eight Chinese-American women and the issues they have to face. However, by the end of first few sections the book becomes redundant with very predictableoutcomes. Certain details, such as jobs atfortune cookie factories, leadto a general impression of primitivity and lack of imagination. The storyitself tries to imitate conflicts and plots of a mature tragedy, but doesso rather poorly. The book may have been slightly more acceptable if itsprofusion of characters had been cut down to two. Other than for a requiredassignment this book does not add much to one's reading experience.

The Joy Luck Club's rave.
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan is a book about the lives and journey of four Chinese women (Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair) & their American-born daughts (Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair).Capitivated in a series of shorts, are tales of the pre-1949 to today's modern times.The Joy Luck Club held it's statis as it was named for, hope and good fortune.As the next generation holds its' faith, it becomes something just a little more special, linking two generations together.. ... Read more

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Part gossip, part behind-the-scenes tell-all, part confessional, this book details the strangest tour in rock history, as 15 of America's most popular writers--including Stephen King, Amy Tan, Dave Barry, and Barbara Kingsolver--left their "day jobs" for life on the rock 'n' roll road. Features 100 candid (and often excruciatingly embarrassing) photos, 30 in color. ... Read more

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Good for a few chuckles
What do you get when you take a bunch of authors, some with very little or no musical talent, and put them together in a band? Well, you get the Rock Bottom Remainders. While the band won't make you forget any of the great bands in rock 'n roll history anytime soon, they not only have fun playing, the experience has helped each of them grow in different ways.

Each chapter is written by a different member of their 1993 East Coast Tour (aka the Three Chords and an Attitude Tour) and provides lots of insight into life on a tour bus, the trials and tribulations of actually learning how to play the guitar, and how to do a transverse colon massage. There are lots of great pictures by Tabitha King (wife of Stephen King), and some very humorous writing by such notables as Stephen King, Dave Barry and Amy Tan. The book is a pretty quick read and will definitely give you a few chuckles.

Sitting with the cool kids on the bus
For the 1992 American Booksellers Association (ABA) in Anaheim, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, a San Francisco rock musician who still held a day job--escorting out of town authors to readings and other events--had an idea.What if she could pull together a group of the well-known authors she'd met and transform them into a rock group for some entertainment, with proceeds benefitting a literacy campaign? By the time she finished, she had Ridley Pearson on bass, Dave Barry and Stephen King on guitar, Barbara Kingsolver on keyboards, the Remainderettes--Amy Tan, journalist Tad Bartimus and Goldmark, and the Critics Chorus--variously consisting of Roy Blount, Jr., Dave Marsh, and Greil Marcus.Michael Dorris, Robert Fulghum and Matt Groening were in the mix, too. Legendary rocker Al Kooper tried to direct them. Someone encouraged Don Henley to review them (thumbs down, way down) and the show was caught on video, which led to a hullabaloo with a music publisher.It took a lot out of the very busy schedules of people who were not, with exception of part of really musicians.So what did these mostly 35 - 50-something writers do once it was over?

They decided to go on a benefit tour from Boston to Miami, just like a real rock band, on a bus, the next spring."Mid-Life Confidential" is a collection of the participants' individual accounts of what really happened. The effect of reading this book is like walking into a loud messy party after everyone else got there.At first references to things that happened in Anaheim don't exactly make sense, but through the aggregation of accounts, the cloud of confusion lifts on, for instance, what the publisher's issue was and how Dave Barry, um, handled it, as well as what Don Henley wrote (thumbs way down).All of these hugely successful writers talk about growing up as the uncool kid for whom this should never have been in the cards and how it was a transformative experience as they bumble through their version of the rock and roll life.There are many laugh out loud passages.There are also some poignant moments--Dorris's son is accidentally killed.Marsh's beloved stepdaughter dies after a valiant struggle against cancer.Bartimus is diagnosed with Lupus and her mother is in the intensive care unit.Kingsolver's first marriage went, as she says, from the ER to the autopsy table.These people were not acquainted when they came together; by the end of the tour they were a healing support group.

It is high fun seeing some of our nation's most successful writers in their mid-life infancy, not to mention the origins of a band that's still playing.This is something of a timepiece: everyone communicates by the latest technology of 1992, the fax machine.No one huddles with a cell phone, no one taps on a laptop.Part "The Commitments," part "This is Spinal Tap" and a dash of "The Breakfast Club," it's about finally getting to hang out with the cool kids on the bus.

Living the dream...sort of
While the main reason I bought this book was to add to my Stephen King colection, I enjoyed the other essays about the experence.It's well written and entertaining and there were suprising stories of how the experence changed the various authors lives.

Hilarious good fun!
Although I vaguely noted the news stories when this band of idiots went on the road in 1993, I only ran across this book by chance three days ago. I read it in less than two. Although the whole idea of authors forming a rock band and doing a tour sounds pretty stupid and self-indulgent, the results were not only good for them, but surprisingly moving and inspiring foranyone who might read this book.I'm sure I enjoyed it no less than thetwo previous reviewers, but I'm a tough grader, so I gave it fourstars.

I always knew Stephen King and Dave Barry were regular guys Iwould just love to meet and have a beer with, but what a shock to find outabout the lovely, funny, human sides of Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, AlKooper (the musical director of this motley crew), Dave Marsh (rock criticand editor) and others!

I laughed 'til I cried over Barry's chapter.Everyone has his or her funny moments, but the chapters by Tan, Kingsolver,and Marsh are refreshingly touching and vulnerable, too.

Bestquotes:

--King calls himself "a kind of Norman Rockwell version ofFreddy Krueger"

--Kooper: "The mere fact that you're readingthis right now is a testimony to the selfishness of twenty-three boredpeople."

--Roy Blount, Jr.: being on stage in a rock and roll bandis "like being inside a forest fire that you're helping, howevermodestly, to spread"

--music critic Joel Selvin: "Most peopleseem to think critics are as useful as tits on a priest."

--Barry:"Our groupie budget is kinda low, so we're not getting top quality --at times, they get a little angry at us and throw their walkers at us andstuff like that."

--Barry again: "...you can imagine howexcited I was when I discovered Buddy Holly. Here was a guy who had glassesat least as flagrant as mine; a guy who did NOT look like a teenheartthrob, but more like the president of the Audiovisual Club, the kidwho always ran the projector for educational films with titles like _TheStory of Meat_."

--Tabitha King: "Greil Marcus informed meSoutherners think the (...) they call coffee iscoffee."

--Kingsolver: "...we all knew no amount of rehearsalcould ever make us into a first-rate, or even cut-rate, or irate, orreprobate, rock and roll band."

There are tons of photos, black andwhite AND color (the ones of Tan in her black leather, chains, and whip for"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" and of Marsh in a white promdress, spattered with ketchup and armed with a plastic knife to attackStephen King during his showstopping rendition of "Teen Angel"are priceless), all shot by Tabitha King.

The book ends on a weak note:Ms. King is neither the writer nor the humorist that the others are, andMichael Dorris's fable-like reverie just kind of makes you go"huh?"

I'm kicking myself repeatedly for not buying the RockBottom Remainders video I saw in a cheapo rack at a Fred Meyer supermarketin Coos Bay, Oregon some years ago....

An amusing, surprising account of writers as rockers.
When Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Marsh and other famous authors formed an ad hoc rock band for a booksellers' convention, everyone--including them--saw it as a one-time lark.Their motto: "We play music as well as Metallica writes novels."But energized by the experience, and the fantasies and camaraderie it sparked, they decided to mount an East-Coast tour as The Rock-Bottom Remainders.In this book, each writer/musician? relates a chapter of the adventure from his or her own perspective.A lot of it is hilarious: most of Dave Barry's and Roy Blount, Jr.'s, contributions, for instance, as well as--surprise--much of Amy Tan's.But the book is also reflective, revealing, and at times surprisingly moving.This is a book for fans of any of the authors represented, for those curious about intersections of American pop culture, and for anyone who has ever dreamed of breaking out of the mold ... Read more

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A New York Times Bestseller

In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true. ... Read more

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Doce amigos estadounidenses estan a punto de emprender el viaje de su vida desde el pie del Himalaya en China hacia las selvas inexploradas de Brimania para profundizar en el arte y la cultura de ambos paises. La manana del dia de Navidad, todos menos uno inician una excursion de medio dia, pero ya no regresan. Se encuentran en medio de la selva, en un poblado secreto donde se oculta una tribu medio extinguida que ve en uno de ellos a su salvador. ... Read more

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Chinese American Children and Families: A Guide for Educators and Service Providers "In my nearly 20 years of experience coordinating services for children and families in California, I have long realized the limited availability of multicultural information and resources. The information is even more scarce or non-existent as it pertains to working with Asian Americans. With the increasing number of Chinese Americans in the United States, it is more and more apparent that a book with insightful and pertinent information intended for educators and other practitioners is needed." Amy Lin Tan, Ph.D.

While the information presented in this book is pertinent to Chinese Americans, with relevant applications to East Asian Americans and Southeast Asian Americans, it has a broader application to all cultures. The main focus of the book is to present educators and service professionals with critical relevant, pertinent, and comprehensive information.

Trusting that educators and other professionals can easily come up with their own conclusions based on the information shared, Amy Tan leaves the professional decisions to the professionals. For those readers who desire more information the book's extensive reference section offers leads for further reading.

Combining bicultural insight and professional experiences while weaving in available literature, this book brings forth a perspective that straddles two worlds to give educators and other professionals the tools needed for providing culturally sensitive services.Amy Lin Tan, Ph.D, 2004. 125 pp. ISBN 0-87173-163-0

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A summary of Chinese beliefs and cultural practices
Chinese American Children & Families: A Guide for Educators & Service Providers is a straightforward summary of Chinese beliefs and cultural practices that American educators, health care workers and service providers need to know when working with the Chinese-American community. Chapters address not only beliefs prevalent in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but also how living amidst American culture has influenced the traditional ways of doing things especially for second and third-generation Chinese. Topics covered include cultural views of disabilities and emotional or belief-system oriented impediments to seeking help for a disabled child, folk nutritional practices, attitudes toward education, child-rearing practices, family composition and structure, and more among Chinese-Americans. A plain-terms, easy-to-understand overview, highly recommended for anyone who needs to work with Chinese-American communities.
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CD audio book set: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Gwendoline Yeo
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Gwendoline Yeo...

Audio CDs are a great alternative for those who have issues with reading. We had no problems with this product and found it to be a great value.

Most interesting, thought-provoking, and fun.
Sorry to be so short but my review title says it all.The ladies describe a totally different world. ... Read more

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A unforgettable Book
This book is wonderful. It is the best book I've ever read. It is about a relationship with a mother and daugter. It is so realistic. I love this book. YOu have to read it. There is also a movie on this book which isfantastic. ... Read more

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Fascinante mezcla de fantasia etnica libro de viajes choque de costumbres apuntes sobre arte budismo colorido exotismo e historias que componen una narracion variada y con buen ritmo. Doce amigos estadounidenses estan a punto de emprender el viaje de su vida desde el pie del Himalaya en China hacia las selvas inexploradas de Birmania para profundizar en el arte y la cultura de ambos paises. La manana del dia de Navidad inician una excursion de medio dia pero ya no regresan. Los amigos se encuentran en medio de la selva en un poblado secreto donde se oculta una tribu casi extinguida que ve en uno de ellos a su salvador el lider que han estado esperando para que los proteja de la violencia del regimen militar birmano. ... Read more