This book is about four Chinese women Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, and lasty Lisa Lu they meet regularly to talk about their familial stories while playing Mahjong. This book takes place in San Francisco, California and China in San Francisco Bay Area, with a trip at the end of the book to Guangzhou and Shanghai, China. It seems that it in the years of the 1980's. My First thoughts about this book are that these four Chinese women went to San Francisco to find a better life then where they were. Also therefore to help their kids live a better life too. I also thought focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families. At the most my thoughts before reading this book is these four women are part
