Tan, Amy.

The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan. - New York : Penguin Books, 2006, c1989. - 288 p. ; 21 cm.

Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies.

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.

9780143038092 (pbk.)


Women--Societies and clubs--Fiction.
Novel studies.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.

PS3570.A48 / J6 2006 PS3570.A56 / J6 2006