Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.
Storyline
1995. Joy has always been fascinated by creating things, this pursuit
always supported emotionally by her maternal grandmother, Mimi. Joy
feels that lack of practical support has led to others making fortunes
on ideas she had come up with years ago but could not act upon
manufacturing. Despite being broke, Joy is the person in her extended
family to who everyone has always turned, in the process forgoing her
own life, including not having attended college to help see her parents
through their divorce. She works in an unsatisfying job as an Eastern
Airlines ticket clerk, and lives with her mother Terry who spends all
day in bed watching soap operas, her ex-husband Tony, a less than
successful aspiring Latino Tom Jones
wannabe, and their two children. Added to this mix is her father Rudy,
the owner of a failing heavy-duty garage, which is managed by Joy's
older half-sister Peggy, with who she has somewhat of a strained
relationship, and for which Joy does the books. Sharon, Rudy's ...
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