The Joy Luck Club

Written by Amy Tan

Narrated by Gwendoline Yeo

For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores the deep, complicated, and sometimes painful connections between mothers and daughters.

Amy Tan entices listeners to immerse themselves into the complex lives of these women.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9781597771085

Amy Tan

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

Reviews for The Joy Luck Club

[Sherry Beickel · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The book was okay. I had do this for school so 1 star, blame school for that one.

[Roxana · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Beautifully told story of four Chinese immigrant families - narration was great

[Alexander Sheldon · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Takes so long to download, and wasted a lot of my time

[Matthew Ensor · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This tale between a mother and daughter truly captures one's search for identity and finding that sense of belonging through war, marriage problems and so on. I find this amazingly written with wit and seriousness that is captures a natural cadence for the reader to love

[Lucia Garcia · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is a beautiful novel, that even more than 30 years later, speaks about fundamental truths: generational trauma, struggles that war and violence install into families, gender inequality and violence.
I still thought it was beautiful, how it talks about the various and very different relationships between daughters and mothers.
I also learnt a lot from Chinese history that I had never had the opportunity to learn before. History that is both troubling and beautiful. History that helps understand a nation and its people.