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The Joy Luck Club
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 628,044 Ratings and 10,268 Reviews

Book Description
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spi... More
Book Information
PublisherPerfection Learning
BindingHardcover (34 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages288
ISBN-100756972779
ISBN-13978-0756972776
Publication Date09/01/2006
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About Amy Tan (Author) : Amy Tan is a published author and a narrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Amy Tan include The Kitchen God's Wife, The Joy Luck Club, The Chinese Siamese ... more
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2/27/2014 Lauren Himmelreich

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11/29/2009 Lauren Himmelreich said: This was a beautiful book to read. I read it when I was twelve and have read it over several times since. Amy Tan is wonderful at weaving together past and present and moving the story line forward in an effortless manner.
tags: I recommend, Inspired me

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8/31/2007 Elizabeth Bluemle tagged as: I Read

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