The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan.
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TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2006, c1989Description: 288 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0143038095 (pbk.); 9780143038092 (pbk.)Subject(s): Women -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction | Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction | Chinese American women -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Mothers -- Death -- FictionLOC classification: PS3570.A48 | J6 2006
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Summary: 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.
Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies.
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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.