The Joy Luck Club Author:Amy Tan 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, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. — Nearly 40 years later one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it ... more »has come true.« less