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The Joy Luck Club Home is not exactly a place but it is an understanding of the beliefs of the mothers in the novel and the different but not wrong beliefs of their daughters.The first relationship that will be discussed is the relationship between An-mei Hsu and her brief relationship with her mother in China. An-Mei first describes her mother as a ghost who later returns to her after she had been gone for nearly five years. After leaving her other family members, An- Mei is taken to a strange, but wealthy house where she discovers her mothers relationship with a man named Wu Tsing. Her mother had disappeared, had a son, and was Wu Tsings fourth wife. After being weakened by the house, and the dishonesty of the people in the house, An-Meis mother commits suicide only after she tells An-Mei that she would rather kill her own weak spirit so she could give me a stronger one (Tan, 240). As a Chinese belief, it is thought that a mother was to pass her spirit to her daughter and so on through each generation to come. Although An-Mei experienced a brief, tragic relationship with her mother, An-Meis spirit and sense of home was stronger then before and that day her mother died An-Mei learned to shou