Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published Aug. 4, 1989 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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...
Subjects
- 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