Tan, Amy.
Summary: After being drawn together by the shadows of their past, four women start meeting every week in San Francisco to engage in hobbies they all enjoy. After one of the four members dies, her daughter takes her place to fulfill her mother's dying wish. After the revelation of a secret, the women are forced to think back to their pasts and remember the sometimes painful events of their lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2006
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Summary: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2001
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Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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Summary: Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995