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The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. There are sixteen chapters divided into four sections, and each woman, both mothers and daughters, (with the exception of one mother, Suyuan Woo, who dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each... full article at wikipedia
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  • 1989
  • 0399134204
  • 1991
  • 067972768X
  • 1990
  • 0804106304
  • 2002
  • 9783464115756
  • 2005
  • 1587248832
  • 1999
  • 9780833552921
  • 2000
  • 9780072435092
  • 1994
  • 9780749336028
  • 2001
  • 9781590400340
  • 1994
  • 9780787100179
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