“So your aunties and I, we wrote to this address… They are your sisters, Jing-mei.”
“My sisters, I repeat to myself, saying these two words together for the first time.”
June (Jing-mei) Woo sits at the Joy Luck Club gathering with the three aunties. They reveal her mother's long-held secret—that she had twin daughters in China.
फिसलना: 2
1.A Aunties respect for suyuan
“My sisters are sending me money?”
“No, no! We add just a little, so you can go to Hong Kong, take a train to Shanghai, see your sisters. Besides, we all getting too rich, too fat.”
“I am crying now, sobbing and laughing at the same time, seeing but not understanding this loyalty to my mother.”
Aunties hand June the letter from her sisters and the check for her trip to China. She holds the paper with shaking hands, overwhelmed.
फिसलना: 3
4.B Shift in POV
“You must see your sisters and tell them about your mother’s death. But most important, you must tell them about her life.”
“What will I say? What can I tell them about my mother? I don’t know anything. She was my mother.”
“Not know your own mother? How can you say? Your mother is in your bones!”
“I will tell them everything.”
The aunties lean in, anxiously urging June to tell her sisters about their mother. June looks uncertain at first, but then finds resolve.
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