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...father had warned me that my family would be very poor, that I should expect little. He was mistaken. I, the daughter of a long-lost brother who had found success in America, was treated and fed like an empress. My uncle had made a special trip to the wharf, to buy my father's favorite fish for my welcome dinner. At dinner my cousins kept me supplied with the biggest piece of fish, the biggest shrimp, the biggest crab. Later, when he learned I had liked the Hami melons in Xinjiang, Li Gan made a special trip...
...collection of memories together is a party, shortly following the death of one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh). The seven surviving women and their families gather to celebrate the departure of Suyuan's daughter, June (Ming-Na Wen), for China, where she will seek out two long-lost sisters, previously thought to be dead. In "The Joy Luck Club," the daughters must look back to and acknowledge their mothers' experiences in China in order to sort out their own lives. June's impending journey is physical enactment of this...
...went in country after country as I chased the stories about Africa that usually interest the Western press: the coups, the starving refugees, the monumentally mismanaged governments, the ugly dictatorships. Everywhere I went, I felt a sense of kinship with the people I covered, who looked like long-lost friends and relatives back in the U.S. From the moment I set foot in Africa, I had a sense of having come home...
...will not long be dependent on the kindness of strangers. Accompanied by her sister-in-law, last week Nancy Myatt of Dickson, Tenn., flew to Portland, Ore., to be reunited with the man she recognized from news photographs as her long-lost father John Kingery. Myatt found Kingery at the Laurelhurst Care Center, a nursing home from which he had been removed in early March by her half sister Sue Gifford. Myatt explained that she lost touch with her father, a former autoworker, after he remarried in 1964 and just "slipped away from us." After a time, Myatt assumed...
Jeremiah Kissel, with his awe-inspiring sideburns and jutting jaw, makes and impressive Crampton, the dentist's landlord and the feminist's long-lost husband. The image of a man unable to handle change, he is belligerently ill-at-ease in an era where the whip can no longer be used to sort out family disputes. Unfortunately, Kissel is a little less convincing when he drops his chronic grumbling in favor of a sentimental attitude...