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8 responses to “Senior Planet Book Club: Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang”

1. Loved this one! Makes you think about what is important in life.

   Reply to Pat

2. Hello,
   Just got the book on Libby (audio version) and can’t locate a table of contents. Anyone care to share or when sharing page assignments share by chapter, which I can see?

   Thanks!

   Reply to Diana Chadwick

3. Can’t join you for the meetings, but thanks for making me aware of this book. I will be putting it on my list of books I want to read!

   Reply to Judy M.

4. Liking this book! Joan has a serious work ethic that most in the book are having a hard time with lol. Hoping by the end she finds a better balance but Joan seems to be okay with it

   Reply to Pat

5. So far my take-away is “what is “Okay?”
   My feeling is that it depends on which side of the question you are on, the lens you are looking through, and many other concepts.
   I look forward to following the journey of the characters in this book.

   Reply to Ken

6. What an excellent read. Lots of history and feelings within families. The role of women, is it okay to be indifferent or different?
   1. Education
   2. Jobs
   3. Marriage
   4. Children
   How do you perceive yourself in your family, or amongst friends?

   Reply to Saundra Woods

   1. Joan is certainly an interesting character. It seems so far that the main focus of her life is her work. I enjoyed my work as a teacher and put a lot of time and effort into it, but I also had a lot of friends and other interests outside of the workplace. I first suspected that her new neighbor was about to change Joan’s attitudes to life, but the title makes us feel otherwise.

      Reply to Jennifer Hale

      1. I wonder if the people in Joan’s life help her see herself on the opposite side of a continuum. There were shared values among the characters: hard-work, initiative, but the definitions of these values were not shared. There were differing life paths that were judged instead of accepted. What was the role culture and family background played in the development of personality and life choices? Why did director see Joan’s (over) work ethic better than Reese’s work ethic that allowed self-time?