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. Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license ( ).Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. Hence, the authority of Chinese American women’s narrative voice can be achieved. Dual narrative voice can be heard by the readers clearly, which, at the same time, makes the narration convincing. As the main character in the novel, June is given the privilege to tell her mother’s story as well as hers. In order to lead readers into the inner world of the characters’, Tan has adopted personal narrative voice to give each woman a chance to tell her own story. With its unique narrative techniques, the novel has aroused great interest among scholars. The literary reputation of Amy Tan is well established by this novel which has caught attention and aroused sensation inside and outside America. The Joy Luck Club is one of Amy Tan’s most successful novels. However, my paper intends to deal with this seemingly old topic from the perspective of feminist narratology in order to prove how Amy Tan, by adopting unique dual narrative voice in the novel, attempts to make Chinese American women hold an authority of their own voice. There is no denying that culture must be the important topic with the globalization of the world. In the past few decades, identity was the popular topic in the literary criticism when researches went for The Joy Luck Club, including the author’s cultural identity, gender identity, and ethnic identity.

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