The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
At first, I thought this wold be a poignant story of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships. In particular, what happens when mother and daughters have different ideas about how the daughter should live her life.
However, I eventually gave up because it became too depressing. There seemed to be a definite case of damned you; damned if you don't. The mothers were miserable because they adhered to traditional Chinese and were submissive and were unhappy when their daughters didn't listen to them. The daughters were unhappy because they couldn't seem to cope with the choices available to them as modern Americans and their mothers never seem to approve of the choices that they did make. Above all, none of the mother/daughter pairs seem to reach any real understanding or learning anything from each other.
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