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        The Joy Luck Club


        by

        setting

        San Francisco, California

        time

        1950-1990

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1989

        page count

        288

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Suyan Woo, An-Mei Hsu, Jing-Mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        My father asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

        literary tidbits

        Not unlike perhaps most critical works, re-tractors have issues with its perpetuation of a negative stereotypes -- illiterate Asian Americans.

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