The Joy Luck Club

by TAN, AMY

• ISBN13: 9780679727682
• ISBN10: 067972768X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1991-09-01
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

This widely acclaimed bestseller spans two countries and two generations, following a group of Chinese women who meet to play mah jong, invest money and tell the secret stories of their lives. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.

Author Biography

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952, two and a half years after her parents immigrated to the United States. Though her parents anticipated she would become a neurosurgeon by trade and a concert pianist by hobby, she instead became a consultant to programs for disabled children, and later a free-lance writer. She visited China for the first time in 1987 and found it was just as her mother said: "As soon as my feet touched China, I became Chinese." She lives in San Francisco with her husband

Table of Contents

FEATHERS FROM A THOUSAND LI AWAY
The Joy Luck Club	19	(23)
Jing-Mei Woo
Scar	42	(7)
An-Mei Hsu
The Red Candle	49	(18)
Lindo Jong
The Moon Lady	67	(22)
Ying-Ying St. Clair
THE TWENTY-SIX MALIGNANT GATES
Rules of the Game	89	(13)
Waverly Jong
The Voice from the Wall	102	(14)
Lena St. Clair
Half and Half	116	(16)
Rose Hsu Jordan
Two Kinds	132	(17)
Jing-Mei Woo
AMERICAN TRANSLATION
Rice Husband	149	(17)
Lena St. Clair
Four Directions	166	(19)
Waverly Jong
Without Wood	185	(12)
Rose Hsu Jordan
Best Quality	197	(18)
Jing-Mei Woo
QUEEN MOTHER OF THE WESTERN SKIES
Magpies	215	(27)
An-Mei Hsu
Waiting Between the Trees	242	(11)
Ying-Ying St. Clair
Double Face	253	(14)
Lindo Jong
A Pair of Tickets	267
Jing-Mei Woo