Lynne Jeter: The Table of Four, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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A richly reported portrait of American women's social life, community, and resilience---told through the game that has gathered them around a table for a century.

What happens when four women sit down to play mahjong? Everything. Secrets. Rivalries. Grief. Laughter. Lifelong friendship. And occasionally, a little drama over who discarded the wrong tile.

In The Table of Four , award-winning journalist Lynne Jeter takes readers inside the world of American mahjong---a game that has quietly anchored women's social lives for a hundred years and has survived cancel culture, a tile revolution, and a scandalous card fiasco that shook its most powerful institution to its core.

Drawing on extensive interviews with players, historians, entrepreneurs, and insiders---including the son of the woman who built the modern American mahjong game with The Card---Lynne traces mahjong from its Chinese origins through the living rooms of Jewish New Yorkers, the country clubs of the South, and the pandemic-era boom that brought millions of new players to the table across America. Along the way, she discovers what the game has always really been about: the hunger for connection, the rituals that hold communities together, and what women reveal---and conceal---when they think they're just playing a game.

The Table of Four is a celebration, an investigation, and an invitation. Pull up a chair.