June and her sisters.

In the story, "The Joy Luck Club", four families are followed. The four mother's lived a great deal of their lives in China while the daughters of each woman was born and has lived in the US all of their lives. Jing-Mei "June" Woo starts the book out by taking her late mother's place in a ritual game that her mother and three other women made a tradition of participating in. Her "Aunties" ,as she refers to them, tell her that her mother's first two daughters had been found and that they had wrote back. In the end of the book, June is in China on her way to meet her two older sisters. As she embraces the sisters she never knew, the story ends. This reunion seems to connect June to her dead mother through her sisters and brings the story around to and end.

Throughout June's whole life, these two sisters were ghosts, immaterial and nothing more that babies that were lost in the Japanese invasion of China. But when she finds out that she has two sisters that are still alive and living in China, her mother's story becomes less of a story and more of a history. Her mother's past is connected with the life of these two girls and by going and finding them, she is finding her mother's past and in a way preserving it, living out her mother's dream of seeing them again.

In the beginning of her last tale, she tells of how she does not look Chinese. This also comes up in various of the other stories, the daughters are missing something that makes them appear Chinese and in some ways, America has pulled something from the mother's so that they can be distinguished as not fully Chinese. June says as she gets out of the plane and sees her two sisters there, she sees two of her mother, looking at her from the crowd. Her sisters are a connection June has to how her mother once looked when she was "fully Chinese". But June also sees how they are not the same as her mother was. Which pulls her all the closer to her mother by seeing how she might look, containing part of her mother but also being her own person.

This story seems to pull the different stories in the book together. Every story before this one has emphasised how different the mothers are from their children. They tell of how their opinions clash and how the daughters "Americanize" their mother's beliefs so that they fit in the situation that they are already involved in. But in this last story, June goes back to China and sees her mother and all her habits all around herself. And there, in the airport, she sees another branch of the picture. Her sisters are her own age and yet they have lived in the same world that her mother had and she knows that they are coping the same as she is.