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Title: A Wonderful Read
Review: The Joy Luck Club is a book that is organized in a series of vignettes. Throughout the novel 8 women (mothers and daughters) are playing mahjong for money as they feast on a great meal. As they play, each character shares stories from their past. Before the story can end another woman begins or continues with her story. The book is constantly changing storylines, but Tan makes the transitions so smoothly that they do not interupt the main line of thought. Each story contains history of China, culture, heartache, loss, frustration, bad matches in marriage, and the will and determination to thrive and strive for happiness despite the barriers that come their way.
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