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Understanding Team Mom in The Joy Luck Club

ByFrances Katz February 9, 2017

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is more than a book about mothers and daughters, although it’s easy to choose sides while reading the generational 1989 novel.

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For Today I Am a Boy

ByJosh Garstka July 4, 2014

For Today I Am a Boy Kim Fu Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2014 256 pages $23.00 Buy: book | ebook Kim Fu opens her touching debut novel with a birth on the concrete floor of a butcher shop. This story is one that’s been passed down through the Huang family, though it may not be…

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