The Joy Luck Club

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288 pages

English language

Published Aug. 31, 2006

ISBN:
978-0-14-303809-2
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OCLC Number:
76273134

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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.

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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.)