Penguin Classics adds four books by Asian Americans to the canon
During the first week that the film adaptation of Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club” hit screens across the United States in 1993, I sat in a Manhattan office being interviewed by the head of a major arts organization. “I’m taking my son this weekend to see ‘Joy Luck Club,’” he chattily informed me. “I want him to learn about your Chinese culture.”
Yes, he was white.
No, I’m not Chinese. My roots are Korean, and my passport makes me American.
As for “The Joy Luck Club” being an arbiter of
