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Apr 9, 2023 · The Joy Luck Club. 1st Ballantine Books edition. by Amy Tan, Gwendoline Yeo, Tsai Chin, Ronald Bass, Wayne Wang, and Jordi Fibla. ★★★★ 4.00 ·. 43 Ratings. 414 Want to read. 26 Currently reading. 62 Have read. 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, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy...
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'...
The Joy Luck Club contains sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. The book hinges on Jing-mei’s trip to China to meet her half-sisters, twins Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa.
Apr 18, 2021 · 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. Access-restricted-item.
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Nov 24, 2013 · Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club was written as a collection of short stories, but the tales of memory, fate, and self-discovery interlock to create a colorful mural that reads like a novel. All four sections open with a Chinese fable, then shift to the stories of four pairs of mothers and daughters.
