Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. Partnership with India’s leading filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, and author Suketu Mehta’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist novel Maximum City from writer-director Anurag Kashyap.Alternate cover editions of ISBN 9780143038092 can be found here.įour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. Hyde Park Asia’s slate includes the best-selling novel Paradise Towers in Mimi Leder with Apple Ashe, the biopic of tennis icon and activist Arthur Ashe, written by AcademyĪward winner Kevin Willmott with Warner Music Group Proxy, directed by 1 Bestseller The Light We Lost directed by Ink Society and Paramount Pictures the New York Times No. Hyde Park’s current slate includes The Man Who Lived Underground, in partnership with Khalabo The film will be produced by Amritraj and Priya Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment, alongside Tan, “Now more than ever it is important to share authentic stories about the Asian-American experience, and we believe this film will speak to wide audiences with its narrative rooted in humanity and connection.” “I am thrilled to work with Amy, Ron and Jeff to bring this special film to the screen,” he said. These four families so close to our hearts,” said Tan and Bass.Īmritraj has been a force in Hollywood, promoting both the building of film and cultural bridges between the East and West, and the creation of diverse, inclusive and socially relevant content.

“We are excited to be teaming with Hyde Park and Jeff Kleeman in bringing to life the next generation of In the sequel, the mothers become grandmothers and the daughters become mothers in their own right, introducing a new generation exploring their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.

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