![]() As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. ![]() With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. ![]() ![]() Alternate cover editions of ISBN 9780143038092 can be found here.įour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. ![]()
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