num_pages: 288
description: Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.
language: English
title: The Joy Luck Club
titlecomplete: The Joy Luck Club
characters: Rose Hsu Jordan, Lena St. Clair, Lindo Jong, Ying-Ying St. Clair, An-Mei Hsu, Suyuan Woo, June Woo, Waverly Jong
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Literature, Adult, Classics, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 674746
places: San Francisco, California, China
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Gold), awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Northern California Book Awards
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage Books