Joy Luck Club Summary

Summary of Joy luck club Jing-mei Woo's mother and father, Suyuan and Canning Woo, emigrated from China to live in San Francisco in 1949. Suyuan revived the Joy Luck Club, a weekly mahjong party she began in Kweilin, China. Her first husband, Wang Fuchi, was an officer in the Kuomintang and had left Suyuan and their twin daughters, Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa in Kweilin while he traveled to Chungking. Kweilin was packed with refugees and …

…locating her twin daughters after a life-long search. She died before she could contact them at the address she discovered, so they wrote a letter in her name and received a letter from Jing-mei's sisters in response. They want Jing-mei to travel to China and tell her sisters about Suyuan's life; they give her $1,200 for the trip. Yet Jing-mei does not know if she knew her mother well enough to tell her sisters about her.