![]() Clairs, and soon she enticed the wives to join with her and form a Joy Luck Club. At the First Chinese Baptist Church, she met the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Suyuan innovated this particular version of the club long ago - in 1949, the year she arrived in San Francisco from China. When the novel opens, a mother, Suyuan Woo, has died of a cerebral aneurysm, and her husband has asked their thirty-six-year-old daughter, Jing-mei ("June"), to assume her mother's role and take her seat at the next meeting of the Joy Luck Club. Further, Tan has said that the members of the club represent "different aspects of my mother." How much of the story is real? "All the daughters are fractured bits of me," Tan said in a Cosmopolitan interview. And if I die, what will you remember?"' Tan's answer appears on the book's dedication page, emphasizing the novel's adherence to truth. ![]() ![]() "Before I wrote The Joy Luck Club," Tan said in an interview, "my mother told me, 'I might die soon. ![]()
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