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.