TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tan,Amy
TI  - The Joy Luck Club
SN  - 0399134204
AV  - PS3570.A48 J6 1989
U1  - 813/.6 19
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York
PB  - Putnam's
KW  - Chinese American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - United States
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh 2
N1  - Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies
N2  - In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters. As each reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined --
ER  -