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The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

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#708 of 8,085 books · #415 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1989), the National Book Award for Fiction (1989), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1989).

In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781407072852
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Mother-daughter relationshipsImmigrant experienceCultural identity

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