You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. It is shou (respect) so deep it is in your bones. “This is how a daughter honors her mother. The Joy Luck Club, so widely loved and appreciated for being a description of the Chinese-American experience, can be summarized in one quote: So, I’ll try to add more details on the existing review but I can’t promise I will succeed. Yes, it’s a confusing thing to reconcile oneself with, but it’s still a powerful narrative. And The Joy Luck Club is a book that makes me do this. There’s more space here for me to spill my thoughts and I know that once I start, it usually takes me more energy than I can spare to stop. Maybe because writing a review on the blog needs me to open up more of myself than I would for the other media. But somehow, to put my thoughts about this book here, seemed too intimidating for me. I even uploaded this review to Instagram and Goodreads, too, I think. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan was the first book I read in 2023 and almost immediately, in a fit of emotion and productivity, wrote the review.
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