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The Joy Luck Club (novel) Publication date 1989 Contents Plot Characters Reception Plot The Joy Luck Club consists of sixteen interlocking stories about the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their four American-born daughters. In 1949, the four mothers meet at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco and agree to continue to meet to play mah jong. They call their mah jong group the Joy Luck Club. The stories told in this novel revolve around the Joy Luck Club women and their daughters. Structurally, the novel is divided into four major sections, with two sections focusing on the stories of the mothers and two sections on the stories of the daughters. Characters Mothers An-Mei Hsu Suyuan Woo Lindo Jong Ying-Ying Betty St. Clair Characters Suyuan Woo During the Second World War, Suyuan lives in the Republic of China while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). she reluctantly and emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them and contact the father. She later remarries, goes to America, and forms a new Joy Luck Club with three other Chinese female immigrants she met at church. She gives birth to another daughter, but her abandonment of her twin girls haunts her for the rest of her life. Characters Daughters Jing-Mei June Woo Rose Hsu Jordan Waverly Jong Lena St. Clair Jing-Mei June Woo Jing-Mei has never fully understood her mother and seems directionless in life. During Junes childhood, her mother used to tell her that she could be anything she wants; however, she particularly wanted her daughter to be gifted, a child star who amazes the world, like Ginny Tiu (seen briefly on television) or Junes rival Waverly. At the beginning of the novel, June is chosen to replace her mothers seat in the Joy Luck Club after her mothers death. At the end of the novel, June is still trying to deal with her mot