Mrs. Sadeghi, speaking nervously but with precision, said today that the jet's pilot had left behind three children, including a 5-year-old, American-born daughter.

Before long, they had two American-born daughters, Cecilia and then Monica.

This first novel about women born in China before 1949, and their American-born daughters, is "a meditation on the divided nature of emigrant life."

She was the American-born daughter of a Hollywood movie star and an Arab prince who had wanted to found a Sleepless dynasty.

His second film, "Dim Sum" (1984), centered on the relationship between a Chinese mother and her American-born daughter.

The relationships between four Chinese women in San Francisco and their American-born daughters.

His mother was the American-born daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants.

But they know these are first-generation immigrant women and their American-born daughters will probably not wear saris every day.

The second section relates important childhood stories of the Joy Luck Club's American-born daughters.

Kinnon, who is white, and Sara, the American-born daughter of Mexican immigrants, have been together for eight months now.