num_pages: 287
description: The Joy Luck Club was formed of four Chinese women recently moved to San Francisco who meet to eat dim sum, play mah-jong and to share stories. Forty years on they and their daughters tell wise and witty tales of hope, loss, family and history. Spanning pre-Revolutionary China to 1980s San Francisco, the women talk as secrets are spilled, mothers boast and despair and daughters struggle with tangled truths.
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: Mandarin