Classic Works

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Is your copy of War and Peace propping open the front door? Have you started Pride and Prejudice more times than your car? If so, join the book club devoted to turning that masterpiece into a piece of cake! We’ll tackle another classic work each month to see if it deserves its place on history’s highest shelf.

This month, we are reading: The Joy Luck Club (1989)

Description from the publisher: 

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.