TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The Joy Luck Club SN - 0143038095 (pbk.) AV - PS 3570.A47 .J84 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Women KW - Societies and clubs KW - Fiction KW - Reminiscing in old age KW - Chinese American women KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Female friendship KW - Mothers KW - Death KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies N2 - 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 ER -