"Powerful... full of magic...you won’t be doing anything of importance until you have finished this novel."

--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"In The Joy Luck Club, vignettes alternate back and forth between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters in California...In the hands of Amy Tan, who has a wonderful eye for what is telling, a fine ear for dialogue, a deep empathy for her subject matter and a guilelessly straightforward way of writing, they sing with a rare fidelity and beauty."

--The New York Times Book Review

"That rare, mesmerizing novel one always seeks but seldom finds.., a pure joy to read"

--Chicago Tribune

"Amy Tan’s brilliant novel flits in and out of many realities but all of them contain mothers and daughters Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at l2, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich mans concubine secures her daughter’s future by killing herself and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."

--The Washington Post Rook World

"Wonderful... a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance"

--San Francisco Chronicle

FEATHERS FROM A THOUSAND LI AWAY

    JING-MEI WOO: The Joy Luck Club

    AN-MEI HSU: Scar

    LINDO JONG: The Red Candle

    YING-YING ST. CLAIR: The Moon Lady

THE TWENTY-SIX MALIGNANT GATES

    WAVERLY .JONG: Rules of the Game

    LENA ST. CLAIR: The Voice from the Wall

    ROSE HSU JORDAN: Half and Half

    JING-MEI WOO: Two Kinds

AMERICAN TRANSLATION

    LENA ST. CLAIR: Rice Husband

    WAVERLY JONG: Four Directions

    ROSE HSU JORDAN: Without Wood

    JING-MEI WOO: Best Quality

QUEEN MOTHER OF THE WESTERN SKIES

    AN-MEI HSU: Magpies

    YING-YING ST. CLAIR: Waiting Between

    the Trees

    LINDO JONG: Double Face

    JING-MEI WOO: A Pair of Tickets