JLC Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Tile game played at Joy Luck Club gatherings
  2. 3. First word of the club's name
  3. 4. What mothers keep in their daughters despite everything
  4. 8. Bad sign; Ying-Ying reads many dark ___s
  5. 11. Chinese concept of destiny woven through many stories
  6. 12. Central figure in every story — the ___
  7. 15. Waverly's zodiac sign — fierce and independent
  8. 18. Long ___ symbolize long life at birthday celebrations
  9. 20. Visible mark left on An-Mei's neck by hot soup
  10. 21. Suyuan's American husband's first name
  11. 25. Major Chinese city referenced in immigration histories
  12. 26. Hsu daughter who stays in a bad marriage too long
  13. 27. Flower symbolizing beauty rising from hardship
  14. 29. Luxury fabric representing China's cultural richness
  15. 30. Game Waverly masters as a child
  16. 32. Ying-Ying is born in the year of the ___
  17. 34. City where Suyuan abandoned her twin babies
  18. 35. Jong daughter, chess prodigy
  19. 36. Virtue expected of daughters in traditional Chinese culture
  20. 41. Theme of what mothers give up for daughters
  21. 42. Instrument Jing-Mei is forced to practice
  22. 43. St. Clair daughter who lives in an unequal marriage
  23. 44. Green stone jewelry symbolizing luck and status
  24. 45. Island nation where some characters flee after WWII
Down
  1. 1. Lunar symbol of beauty and change throughout the novel
  2. 2. An-Mei's grandmother warns about evil ___ in mirrors
  3. 5. Central theme; mothers hold this for daughters
  4. 6. Hsu mother, whose mother was a concubine
  5. 7. City where Suyuan first started a Joy Luck Club during wartime
  6. 9. Jing-Mei Woo's American name
  7. 10. Paired with joy — the emotional undertow of the novel
  8. 13. Number of mother-daughter pairs in the novel
  9. 14. ___ Ying St. Clair, Lena's mother
  10. 16. Waverly's fiance Rich Shields
  11. 17. What the swan's plume becomes — a symbol of a mother's hopes
  12. 19. founder of the Joy Luck Club
  13. 22. Jong matriarch who escapes an arranged marriage
  14. 23. Wind tile direction; also the direction of China from America
  15. 24. Suyuan's family name
  16. 25. Season of renewal; one of the mah jong wind seats
  17. 27. Second word of the club's name
  18. 28. Rose's husband who eventually divorces her
  19. 30. Low social rank of An-Mei's mother in a wealthy household
  20. 31. Bird brought from China on the voyage to America
  21. 33. Reverence for ___ is a Chinese cultural value in the novel
  22. 37. American ___ — what mothers hope daughters will achieve
  23. 38. Country all four mothers emigrated from
  24. 39. Daughters' struggle between Chinese and American ___
  25. 40. Lena's husband who splits every expense equally
  26. 44. June's Chinese name meaning 'pure, younger sister'