Joy Luck Club

by TAN, AMY

• ISBN13: 9780804106306
• ISBN10: 0804106304
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Ivy Books

Summary

"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life." WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

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	5	(84)
JING-MEI WOO
The Joy Luck Club	5	(28)
AN-MEI HSU
Scar	33	(9)
LINDO JONG
The Red Candle	42	(22)
YING-YING ST. CLAIR
The Moon Lady	64	(25)
THE TWENTY-SIX MALIGNANT GATES	89	(72)
WAVERLY JONG
Rules of the Game	89	(15)
LENA ST. CLAIR
The Voice from the Wall	104	(18)
ROSE HSU JORDAN
Half and Half	122	(19)
JING-MEI WOO
Two Kinds	141	(20)
AMERICAN TRANSLATION	161	(80)
LENA ST. CLAIR
Rice Husband	161	(21)
WAVERLY JONG
Four Directions	182	(24)
ROSE HSU JORDAN
Without Wood	206	(15)
JING-MEI WOO
Best Quality	221	(20)
QUEEN MOTHER OF THE WESTERN SKIES	241
AN-MEI HSU
Magpies	241	(33)
YING-YING ST. CLAIR
Waiting Between the Trees	274	(14)
LINDO JONG
Double Face	288	(18)
JING-MEI WOO
A Pair of Tickets	306