The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the different mother-daughter relationships between the characters, and at a lower level, relationships between friends, lovers, and even enemies. The mother-daughter relationships are most likely different aspects of Tan's relationship...

Amy Tan was born in California, but both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. By the time Amy was fifteen years old she had already lost both her father and older brother to brain tumors. It was then that Amy's mother moved her and her younger brother to Switzerland. Growing up Amy did n...