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    <title>The Joy Luck Club</title>
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    <namePart>Tan, Amy</namePart>
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    <publisher>Penguin Group</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1989</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>288 p.:</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
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  <note>English</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Societies and clubs</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Reminiscing in old age</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>San Francisco (Calif.)</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Chinese American women</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Mothers and daughters</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Loss (Psychology)</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Female friendship</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Mothers</topic>
    <topic>Death</topic>
    <topic>FICTION</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">813.54 T16j 2006</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">978-0-14-303809-2</identifier>
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