The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan.
Publisher: Putnam's
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
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
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.