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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TANChen, Kirstin
Summary: Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEKwok, Jean.
Summary: Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong, having grown up in New York's Chinatown as the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker, is torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOTan, Amy.
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANKwok, Jean
Summary: A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOTan, Amy.
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