01525cam a2200349 4500 506443765 TxAuBib 20210920120000.0 140414s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2014015907 9780143124849 HRD 27.00 0143124846 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib Tan, Amy, 1952- The Joy Luck Club [BOOK] / Amy Tan. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014. xv, 329 pages ; 20 cm. Penguin drop caps Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies. In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. 20210920. Women Societies and clubs Fiction. Reminiscing in old age Fiction. Chinese American women Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. San Francisco (Calif) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Penguin drop caps.