288 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Penguin Books.
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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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.
Subjects
- Death
- Reminiscing in old age
- Mothers
- Chinese American women
- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology)
- Societies and clubs
- Female friendship
- Mothers and daughters
- Women
Places
- San Francisco (Calif.)