TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tan,Amy
TI  - The joy luck club
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York
PB  - G. P. Putnam's
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - American Dream
KW  - Chinese American women
KW  - Domestic
KW  - Generational
KW  - ssi
KW  - Sociological
N1  - Feathers from a Thousand Li Away -- The Joy Luck Club / Jing-Mei Woo -- Scar / An-Mei Hsu -- The Red Candle / Lindo Jong -- The Moon Lady / Ying-Ying St. Clair -- The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates -- Rules of the Game / Waverly Jong -- The Voice from the Wall / Lena St. Clair -- Half and Half / Rose Hsu Jordan -- Two Kinds / Jing-Mei Woo -- American Translation -- Rice Husband / Lena St. Clair -- Four Directions / Waverly Jong -- Without Wood / Rose Hsu Jordan -- Best Quality / Jing-Mei Woo -- Queen Mother of the Western Skies -- Magpies / An-Mei Hsu -- Waiting Between the Trees / Ying-Ying St. Clair -- Double Face / Lindo Jong -- A Pair of Tickets / Jing-Mei Woo
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, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember... In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes about what is lost-over the years, between generations, among friends-and what is saved
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