The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan · first published 1989

The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco who start a mahjong club known as The Joy Luck Club. The book is structured similarly to a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of short vignettes.

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Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.0 / 5 (1 on Open Library)

Year page:

1989