THE JOY LUCK CLUB, by Amy Tan

Join us for an in-person conversation about The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's classic novel that explores the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters.

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. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties.

Book length: 352 pages

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