Moving between the dazzling world of courtesans in turn of the century Shanghai, a remote Chinese mountain village, and the rough-hewn streets of nineteenth-century San Francisco, Amy Tan's sweeping new novel maps the lives of three g...

In her startlingly sensual new story, "Rules for Virgins" — the first fiction she has published in six years — beloved bestselling author Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter) takes us deep into the illi...

’Ruth Young suspects that something is terribly wrong with her mother. As a child, Ruth was constantly subjected to her mothers disturbing notions about curses and ghosts and to her repeated threats to kill herself. But now LuLi...

A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they ...

When June’s mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother’s place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother’s death to her s...

Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. S...

A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they ...

With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, 'The Joy Luck Club,' a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her susp...

Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horr...

In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club. 8 CD. Unabridged.