JOY LUCK CLUB,THE- BKWL6 **New Edition**

STAGE 6 ADVANCED. 2500 Headwordspassive(infinitives, gerunds) advanced modal meanings clauses of concession, conditionThere are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever.This is the story of four mothers and their daughters-Chinese-American. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past as a future half a world apart.