Dusting Off the Classics Book Group-- The Joy Luck Club Online
Join us for “Dusting Off the Classics” with facilitator Christopher Proctor. This month we're discussing The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This event is hosted with a hybrid model-- come to the library Auditorium if you prefer in person events, but we’ll email you a link to join the discussion on Zoom. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.
Christopher Proctor is an academic librarian and faculty member at Indiana University Southeast Library.