The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
year: 1989, 1991, 1990, 2006, 2005, 2008, 2014
call number/section: 1000, 813.54, 4
subjects: chinese american women, fiction, mothers and daughters, united states, mother-daughter relationship, chinese americans, women, domestic fiction, tan, amy, chinese american literature, american literature, chinese american fiction, societies and clubs, reminiscing in old age, loss (psychology), san francisco (calif.), fiction, audiobooks, mothers, death, female friendship, domestic fiction, family life, electronic books
Editions
Tan, Amy
Putnam's (1989)
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
Schools: 30
Tan, Amy
Vintage Books (1991)
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
Schools: 0
Tan, Amy
Ivy Books (1990)
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
Schools: 10
Tan, Amy
Penguin Books (2006)
Schools: 1
Tan, Amy
Wheeler Pub. (2005)
Schools: 0
Tan, Amy
Phoenix Audio (2008)
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
Schools: 0
Tan, Amy
Chronicles the lives of four Chinese women, their 40 year friendship and how the death of one brings her daughter into the fold and a new understanding for each.
Schools: 5
Tan, Amy
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
Schools: 2
Tan, Amy
Presents the alternating stories of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and their American-born daughters in California.
Schools: 1
Tan, Amy
Penguin Books (2014)
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
Schools: 1