“The Joy Luck Club” was one of the first novels she wrote. This novel “received the Commonwealth Club gold award for fiction and the American Library Association’s bet book for young adults in 1989 and stayed on the New York Time’s best-seller list for nine months” (“Amy Tan”). Tan’s novel she wrote has sixteen stories in it and it “forges connections between two generations of women” (Singer). “Throughout the novel, the various mothers and daughters attempt to demonstrate their own concerns about the past and the present and about themselves and their relations” (“Amy Tan”).
