The Joy Luck Club Play

"The Joy Luck Club" is filled with ghosts. Amy Tan's four Chinese-born matriarchs call on ancient spirits for help and repress memories of brutality and heartache. Their daughters are haunted by their mothers' high expectations, their own insecurities, and (being good Asian Americans) model-minority angst. In the end, nearly everyone finds some semblance of luck, if not joy, thanks to encounters with the "other" side -- what Tan has described as the elusive worlds of Fate and Faith.