The Joy Luck Club

Article in Adult Fiction and Big Read categories.

Other works by Amy Tan

Fiction:

• The Bonesetter's Daughter
• The Hundred Secret Senses
• The Kitchen's God's Wife
• Saving Fish from Drowning

Nonfiction:

• The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings

For Children:

• The Chinese Siamese Cat (adapted into the television series Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat)

Novels featuring Chinese Culture and History

• The Red Chamber by Pauline Chen - An epic reimagining of the Chinese classic "Dream of the Red Chamber" is set against a backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing and follows the intersecting lives of three women, including orphaned Daiyu, who becomes tangled in a web of intrigue with ties to the Emperor's Palace.

Novels and memoirs featuring Chinese-American Families

• Mona In the Promised Land by Gish Jen
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. Try also her novel Tripmaster Monkey.
• Girl from Purple Mountain : Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America by May-Lee Chai and Winberg Chai
• Falling Leaves : The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yeh Mah. This book is also available in a version written for younger readers: *Chinese Cinderella

First-Generation, Second-Generation and other Immigrant Stories

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Step From Heaven by An Na
• Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Helie Lee
• China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
• On Golden Mountain, by Lisa See

Novels featuring Mothers and Daughters

• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Everything Will Be All Right by Tessa Hadley
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Nonfiction featuring Chinese Culture and History

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, describing the life of the author's grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother, a member of the Communist elite, and the family's experiences during the Cultural Revolution.

For Children

• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord.

External Links

• The NEA's Big Read website has a Reader's Guide and more information about the book and the author.

• Amy Tan's official website

• The Chinese in California: San Francisco's Chinatown An introduction to San Francisco's Chinatown on the Library of Congress website