The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
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 began meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties.
