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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
 
Table of Contents:
• Acknowledgments
• The Joy Luck Club
• eForeward
• Feathers From a Thousand LI Away
o The Joy Luck Club: Jing-Mei Woo
o Scar: An-Mei Hsu
o The Red Candle: Lindo Jong
o The Moon Lady: Ying-Ying St. Clair
• The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates
o Rules of the Game: Waverly Jong
o The Voice from the Wall: Lena St. Clair
o Half and Half: Rose Hsu Jordan
o Two Kinds: Jing-Mei Woo
• American Translation
o Rice Husband: Lena St. Clair
o Four Directions: Waverly Jong
o Without Wood: Rose Hsu Jordan
o Best Quality: Jing-Mei Woo
• Queen Mother of the Western Skies
o Magpies: An-Mei Hsu
o Waiting Between the Trees: Ying-Ying St. Clair
o Double face: Lindo Jong
o A Pair of Tickets: Jing-Mei Woo
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to her weekly writers' group for kindness and criticism during the writing of this book. Special thanks also to Louis DeMattei, Robert Foothorap, Gretchen Schields, Amy Hempel, Jennifer Barth, and my family in China and America. And a thousand flowers each to three people whom I have had the joy and the luck to know: my editor, Faith Sale, for her belief in this book; my agent, Sandra Dijkstra, for saving my life; and my teacher, Molly Giles, who told me to start over again and then patiently guided me to the end.
The Joy Luck Club
The mothers, and the daughters:
Suyuan Woo—Jing-mei "June" Woo
An-mei Hsu—Rose Hsu Jordan
Lindo Jong—Waverly Jong
Ying-ying St. Clair—Lena St. Clair
eForeward
Born in 1952 in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrant parents, Amy Tan followed her own path. Over the objections of her mother, she majored in college in writing and linguistics and pursued a career in business writing.
Any Tan's relationship with her mother was very difficult. An opportunity to travel with her mother back to China brought a new perspective.
Amy Tan's first fiction efforts were short stories. These attracted an agent, Sandra