TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The Joy Luck Club SN - 0804106304 U1 - F TAN PY - 1993///, c1989 CY - New York PB - Ivy Books KW - Chinese Americans KW - Fiction KW - Immigrants KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Parent and child KW - Large type books KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General N1 - This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students. N2 - Four Chinese women flee warfare in their homeland in 1949 and settle in San Francisco. When one of them dies 40 years later, her American-born daughter learns some astonishing truths about her mother's life in China and discovers the value of tradition. ER -