TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - Joy Luck Club SN - U1 - 813.54 TAN 20 PY - 1989/// CY - New York PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - Tan, Amy. KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Reminiscing in old age KW - Women--Societies and clubs N1 - Gratis $17.00/-; Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies N2 - In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife UR - https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/the-joy-luck-club/amy-tan-biography#:~:text=Amy%20Tan%2C%20whose%20Chinese%20name,and%20John%2C%20born%20in%201954. ER -