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The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan.

Tan, Amy, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0399134204
  • ISBN: 9780399134203
  • ISBN: 0804106304
  • ISBN: 9780804106306
  • ISBN: 9780143124849
  • ISBN: 0143124846
  • ISBN: 067972768X
  • ISBN: 9780679727682
  • Physical Description: xv, 329 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Group, Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, 2014.

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General Note:
Publisher, pagination, and dates may vary.
"First published in the United States of America by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1989"--Title page verso.
"Published in Penguin Books 2006"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies.
Target Audience Note:
930L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 14 7111.

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Subject:
Women > Societies and clubs > Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age > Fiction.
Chinese American women > Fiction.
Chinese Americans > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Mothers > Death > Fiction.
Women.
Womyn.
Women's friendships.
Mothers.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

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