The Joy Luck Club

Tan, Amy.

The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan - New York : Penguin Books, 2006. - 288 pages ; 21 cm

Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies

In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades

0143038095 (pbk.) 9780143038092 (pbk.)


Women--Societies and clubs--Fiction
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction
Chinese American women--Fiction
Mothers and daughters--Fiction
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction
Female friendship--Fiction
Mothers--Death--Fiction


San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction


Domestic fiction

PS 3570.A47 / .J84 2006