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In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's first novel, short-story-like vignettes alternate



back and forth between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and lives of



their American-born daughters in California. The book is a mediation on the divided



nature of this emigrant life. The novel is narrated horizontally as well as vertically;



friendships and rivalries develop among the daughters as well as the mothers.(Matuz 92)



As Jing Mei Woo describes, "Auntie Lin and my mother were both best friends and



arch-enemies who spent a lifetime comparing their children. I was one month older than



Waverly Jong, Auntie Lin's prized daughter. From the time we were babies, our



mothers compared the creases in our belly buttons, how shapely our earlobes were, how



fast we healed when we scraped our knees, how thick and dark our hair was, how many



shoes we wore out in one year, and later, how smart Waverly was at playing chess, how



many trophies she......

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