The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave... read more
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Asian / Pacific American
Year Published 1989
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 930L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction
- Mothers and daughters--United States--Fiction
- Female friendship
- Reminiscing in old age--Fiction
- Fiction | Literary
- Chinese American women
- Chinese American women--Fiction
- Reading comprehension--Problems, exercises, etc
- Mothers and daughters
- Domestic fiction
- Large type books
- Loss (Psychology)
- Women--Societies and clubs--Fiction
- English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers
- China--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction
- Mothers--Death--Fiction
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction
- Mothers
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Societies and clubs
- United States
- Death
- Women
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Readers (Adult)
- Female friendship--Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age
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