The Table of Four: What Mahjong Reveals about Who We Really Are: The Psychology, the Cliques, and the Booming Business Behind America's Hottest Game

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...