The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
Chinese American women Chinese Americans Chinese-American women Fiction General General & Literary Fiction Historical Historical fiction Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Mothers and daughters Sagas
SUMMARY:
A New York Times Bestseller 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, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.