The Joy Luck Club
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.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: chinese american women, mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship [X], chinese americans, women, domestic fiction, tan, amy, chinese american literature, american literature, chinese american fiction, reminiscing in old age, loss (psychology), san francisco (calif.), audiobooks, mothers, female friendship, domestic fiction, family life, electronic books
Breath, Eyes, Memory
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: haitian americans, women, mothers and daughters, tourism, mother-daughter relationship [X], domestic fiction, americans, women travelers, large type books, haiti