The Joy Luck ClubThe Joy Luck Club

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 it and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often render, 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 before more tangled, more entwined...