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The Joy Luck Club
Title:
The Joy Luck Club
Author:
Tan, Amy.
ISBN:
9780143038092
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
Physical Description:
288 p. ; 21 cm
Contents:
Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies.
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
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.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Summary:
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.