Contemporary classics

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

A layered family novel about inheritance and misunderstanding.

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Genre

Linked stories

Subgenre

Mothers and daughters novel

Original publication

1989

Original publisher

G. P. Putnam's Sons

Pages

288

Format

Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions

Language

English

Setting

China and San Francisco

ISBN

9780143038092

Original title

The Joy Luck Club

family mothers daughters immigration china identity memory generations

About the book

Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters struggle to understand one another across memory, language and expectation.

A strong fit for readers asking about mothers and daughters, immigration, family memory, China and intergenerational identity.

The linked structure lets different women speak, gradually revealing how family stories travel and change.

It suits book-club discovery around mothers, daughters, migration, culture and generational tension.