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#BroaderBookshelf Book Group
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Take the #BroaderBookshelf reading challenge and expand your reading horizons! Join us for a virtual book group discussion of this month’s title, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan as we cover the prompt "Read a novel set in the 1980s".
Amy Tan's beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
This title is available in multiple formats. Click here to find your copy! It is also available as an eAudioBook for immediate download via Hoopla.
The #BroaderBookshelf book group meets virtually the first Wednesday of every month from 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. After registering, a Zoom link will be provided via email one day prior to the event.
Questions? Email lcazier@richlandlibrary.com or mryan@richlandlibrary.com
Registration Information:
- This event is held via Zoom.
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