The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week we're talking about 1989's smash-hit debut The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. We talk debut novels, immigration literature, why so many women find Amy Tan in their teens, mothers and their daughters, food and how it travels, and why we're still obsessed with Waverly Jong.
Lillian Li's "The Love Hate Joy Luck Club” - https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/05/the-love-hate-joy-luck-club/
Sentimental Garbage is produced and edited by Caroline O'Donoghue, mixed by Hannah Varrall and hosted by Acast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone it's Caroline here I actually have some really good news for you this week |
| 0:04.4 | because at my other podcast the School for Done Women is back some of you may not have heard of this |
| 0:09.8 | we actually went on a pretty long hiatus for a while there which was kind of the reason why I started doing sentimental garbage in the first place. |
| 0:17.0 | But it's back now and it's basically nothing like sentimental garbage. There's very little about books in there and it's mostly me and my two friends, Hannah Barrell and the comedian Alex Hado, talking bollix for 45 minutes straight. |
| 0:31.0 | We kind of tend to focus on those Wikipedia pages that you spend way too much time on. |
| 0:36.0 | I think this week we talk about the show Ground Force, which was a gardening show from the 90s that was made famous because of someone not wearing a bra. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm not from England, I don't know what you people do. |
| 0:48.0 | And we also talk about movie phone numbers, like why everything starts with 555 which I found |
| 0:53.6 | absolutely fascinating. There's also a long bit at the end where I just talk about |
| 0:57.3 | my birthday for 10 minutes straight so if that appeals to you at all please head |
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| 1:06.0 | Right in School for Dumb Women and have a listen. Hello and welcome to a special edition of Sentimental Garbage podcast where we talk about the novels |
| 1:23.6 | are getting us through the coronavirus. My name is Karen Adunahue and I'm an author and a chess |
| 1:28.0 | prodigy going through a divorce. Joining me is writer and best quality crab Ella is Bridger. |
| 1:33.4 | Hi. |
| 1:34.4 | Hi. |
| 1:35.4 | Today we're talking about Amy Tan's 1989 best-selling debut The Joy Luck Club, |
| 1:41.2 | a book that I cannot believe is as influential as it is and is also a debut novel. |
| 1:47.0 | How is this a debut novel? Actually, I have some thoughts about it being a debut novel because my favorite by her is the kitchen God's wife. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm reading that at the moment on your recommendation and it is also even though I've |
| 1:58.1 | read other her of her books my favorite book by her I'm halfway through, it's amazing. And I mean it probably seems, it was quite an |
| 2:07.1 | interesting thing of should we stop doing the Joy Alert Club and instead do the kitchen |
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