<Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 813 /. 54 19 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PS3570. A48 J6 1989 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan . It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods . The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters . The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes . Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game . </P> <P> In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming - Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu . The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass . The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York . </P>

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