Book · 1989 · Fiction

The Joy Luck Club

Name: The Joy Luck Club
Author: Amy Tan

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 288 pages

★ 6.1 editorial score

Four women who fled China met over mahjong in San Francisco, and when one dies her daughter takes the empty seat. Tan's sixteen interlocking stories carry the mothers' buried lives across.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Cultural identity Assimilation Mothers and daughters

Setting

San Francisco

Time

1989

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