Rules of the Game
One Christmas Waverly Jong's brother received a chess set. She became obsessed with chess and started going to the park learning from some old men who played chess regularly. She became a very good chess player and went to many tournaments and won them but her mom wasn't always satisfied with her win's because she wanted her to dominate. One day she came home late and her mom gets very upset and she goes to her room where she imagines a chess match between herself and her mother.
The Voice from the Wall
This story follows Lena St. Clair who has a mother who is from china and doesn't know very good English and a father who is English and knows very little Mandarin. Her parents cant really speak to each other so Lena is often used to translate for them and often changes what her mother and what her father says. Lena's mom becomes pregnant but the baby ends up dying. Her moms goes crazy while Lena becomes friends with the girl next door.
Half and Half
This story follows Rose who is older and wants to find a man to support her. Rose wanted to marry Ted who was American but her mother didn't approve along with Ted's family. Both sides of the family were trying to push them apart but in the end they ended up getting married but that didn't last long. When Rose went to the beach with her family, she was put in charge of her youngest brother Bing, she took her eyes off him for a moment and he fell in the water. She now realizes she can no more save her marriage than recover Bing.
Two Kind
This story follows Jing-Mei and her mother Suyuan who is trying to make her daughter into another prodigy like Waverly Jong. She put her into piano lessons with a def piano instructor but she put in no effort to get better and the instructor didn't know she was playing terribly. She entered her into the church talent show with all of the Joy Luck Club watching she played terrible trying to make her mom look bad. Her mom was very disappointed and ended up dying. Jing-Mei had the old piano restored and sat down and realized she could actually play.
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