“The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan

In 1949, four women newly arrived in San Francisco begin meeting to play mah-jongg, share dim sum, and swap stories of the lives they left behind in China. They call themselves the Joy Luck Club.

Decades later, when one of the mothers dies, her daughter, Jing-mei, takes her seat at the table and learns a family secret that will take her all the way to China. Through sixteen interwoven stories, four mothers and their four American-born daughters reveal the love, misunderstandings, and hard-won wisdom that bind them across generations and cultures.

Amy Tan’s beloved debut is tender, funny, and heartbreaking all at once. It’s a modern classic, and it became an unforgettable film.

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