The release date for the English version of 'The Joy Luck Club' by
Amy Tan is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Here are many cover versions of ISBN 9780143038092.
Depending on who is narrating the tales, the history of the four families—four moms, four daughters—shift with the four winds. Four Chinese ladies who had just immigrated to San Francisco get together once a week in 1949 to play mahjong and share tales of their time spent there. Called the Joy Luck Club, they are a group of women united in sorrow and renewed optimism for the futures of their children. Before their own inner problems show how much they've unintentionally inherited of their moms' pasts, their daughters—who have never heard these stories—believe that their mothers' wisdom is useless to their contemporary American lives.
Amy Tan explores the often difficult, frequently delicate, and always profound bond between mothers and daughters with humor and compassion. The ties become increasingly knotted and interwoven as each lady opens up about her secrets in an attempt to discover the truth about her life. Daughters roll their eyes when they sense the unbreakable tightening of their matriarchal bonds, and mothers gloat or anguish over their daughters. Because of Tan's skill as a writer, readers are drawn into these intricate and mysterious lives.