Across
- 2. A source of both unity and pain in the book
- 4. Woman haunted by past mistakes and spiritual imbalance
- 8. A recurring theme for the mothers in the novel
- 10. Status of the mothers arriving in the U.S.
- 11. Felt by mothers who left behind family or children
- 12. Jing-mei meets them at the end of the book
- 15. Founder of the Joy Luck Club and mother of Jing-mei
- 16. Hidden truths that shape the characters’ lives
- 19. Devoted daughter who learns strength from her mother
- 20. A theme tied to confronting personal history
- 21. A heavy emotion carried by some mothers
- 23. What the mothers want to pass to their children
- 24. Source of conflict between generations in the story
- 25. Both mothers and daughters have these about the future
- 28. Chess prodigy and daughter of Lindo Jong
- 33. Daughter whose marriage is falling apart
- 34. Deeply rooted beliefs that affect characters’ choices
- 36. Land of opportunity and conflict for new generations
Down
- 1. Game played by the women of the Joy Luck Club
- 3. How some daughters respond to strict parenting
- 5. The currency used in China
- 6. What Lindo calls the kind of strength passed to her daughter
- 7. Anmei’s mother gives her this as a blessing
- 9. Often a bridge and a barrier between mothers and daughters
- 13. What many daughters struggle to find
- 14. One is brought from China as a symbol of hope
- 17. Ying-ying’s Chinese zodiac animal
- 18. Mother who teaches the power of invisible strength
- 22. Symbolic chapter involving sacrifice and suffering
- 26. Anmei carries one from boiling soup, symbolic of her trauma
- 27. Belief that fate can be shaped by strong will
- 29. Suyuan wrote these to her twin daughters
- 30. Narrator who travels to China to meet her sisters
- 31. What Chinese daughters are expected to be
- 32. Country the mothers came from
- 35. Symbol of luck and celebration in Chinese culture