The Joy Luck Club

The documented trap is a 2015 Putnam/Penguin reprint that closely imitates the first-edition jacket. Distinguish it by: a REVERSED number line running 10 to 1, an updated ISBN, Putnam/Penguin logos, different jacket price placement, and the omission of the 200 Madison Avenue address from the rear flap. No title-specific book-club variant is documented in the sources consulted; book-club copies follow the general Putnam-era tells — no price at the jacket flap, a blind-stamped depression near the lower corner of the rear board, and a smaller, lighter bulk on thinner paper.