The Joy Luck Club
A Novel
Amy Tan
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, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves...
Publish Date
2006
September 21
First Published in 1989
Goodreads rating
3.94
ISBN
9780143038092
Categories
Recommendations
2
Recommendations
Aug 15, 2000
This novel opened my eyes, not only to the distinct and special traditions of the Chinese-American culture but also to the ways in which immigrant women of different generations adapted and adjusted to life in this country. – source