Helen then makes the same threat to Winnie-reveal her secret past to her daughter or Helen will. Aunt Helen, who knows Pearl's "secret," threatens to tell Pearl's mother if Pearl won't do it herself. Pearl, herself the mother of two girls, has not yet told her mother Winnie what she has known for a while-that she has multiple sclerosis (their relationship has been strained ever since Pearl's father died when she was 14). Worthy of the acclaim given The Joy Luck Club, Tan's engrossing second novel about Chinese-American culture continues the author's intricate exploration of mother-daughter relationships, generational differences, and the key way secrets define them.
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