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Author:

Tan, Amy, author.

Title:

The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

329 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Women--Societies and clubs--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--United States--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.
Chinese American women.
Female friendship.
Loss (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters.
Mothers--Death.
Reminiscing in old age.
Women--Societies and clubs.
United States.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Penguin classics
Penguin orange collection

ISBN:

9780143129493
014312949X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)933567925

LCCN:

2016478347

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)