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The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York: Ivy Books, 1989 [394 pp.] Amy Tan writes her books with a social communicational aim towards people. Her books become best-sellers in the New York Times for months at times. Her first book The Joy Luck Club is one of the best sellers. The Joy Luck Club is a first-person drama that takes place in San Francisco during the late 1940’s and through the 1950’s; told in four sections by 16 different narrators. The book centers on Jing-mei’s trip to China to meet her half-sisters, twins; Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa. These sisters stayed behind in China because Suyuan, Jing-mei’s mother, was forced to leave them behind during her desperate flight from Japan’s attack on Kweillin during World War II. Jing-mei was born years after in America, to another father. Suyuan died before she could reach her daughters although she found the address of her lost daughters. Jing-mei had taken her mother’s place in playing mahjong at a weekly gathering her mother had organized in China and revived in San Francisco called the Joy Luck Club. The other members of the club—Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei—were three of Suyuan’s best friends and fellow immigrants before jing-mei, mothers, mother, daughters, china, about, tell, own, luck, joy, four, club, through, suyuan, story, stories, sections, section, mother’s, jing-mei’s, during, books, although, york, ying-ying, waverly, two, towards, told, times, three, tan, solutions, san, relationships, realizes