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02514aam a2200517 i 4500 001 B627D9FA4B4611E7B8F764B7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170607010103 008 170302s2016 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2016478347 020 $a 9780143129493 020 $a 014312949X 035 $a (OCoLC)933567925 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ZQP $d OCLCF $d CGP $d ORK $d OCLCO $d OCL $d SILO 100 1 $a Tan, Amy, $e author. 245 14 $a The Joy Luck Club / $c Amy Tan. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Books, $c 2016. 300 $a 329 pages ; $c 20 cm 490 1 $a Penguin classics 490 1 $a Penguin orange collection 520 $a Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. 650 0 $a Women $x Societies and clubs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reminiscing in old age $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Chinese American women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Loss (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers $x Death $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Chinese American women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857242 650 7 $a Female friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922609 650 7 $a Loss (Psychology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01002621 650 7 $a Mothers and daughters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026997 650 7 $a Mothers $x Death. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026948 650 7 $a Reminiscing in old age. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094438 650 7 $a Women $x Societies and clubs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176970 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726589 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcsh 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Penguin classics. 830 0 $a Penguin orange collection. 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20170607010617.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B627D9FA4B4611E7B8F764B7DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search