This was Tan’s first novel, a highly-acclaimed New York Times best-seller and winner of the 1989 California Book Award for Fiction. Storyline: JOY is the wild true story of Joy Mangano and her ItalianAmerican family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty by inventing the Miracle Mop and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Lawrence told Time that Joy is "50% the story of Joy Mangano" and the remaining half was "David's imagination and different daring women … A Joy Story Joy and Heron Short Animated Movie.
Watch Joy Miles Morales conjures his life between being a middle school.