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The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan · 1989

Literary Fiction · ranked #109 in category

Four Chinese women who emigrated to America after World War II and their American-born daughters explore their relationships through sixteen interconnected stories — told alternately from each generation's perspective. Tan's debut novel is about the gap between cultures and between generations, and the weight of the stories mothers and daughters cannot tell each other.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1989 · 1980s
Author
Amy Tan
Standing
Essential Read

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