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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