The Story of Five Menopausal, Southern, Jewish Women Playing Mah Jongg and One Gay Son
For these women, life revolves around the weekly Mah Jongg game, where they shmooze, gossip, advise, listen, learn, relate, laugh, cry, curse, and eat. For five middle-aged, Jewish women in Newport News, Virginia, it was their weekly game that held them together for almost forty years, but it was one event-filled year that drastically affected all of them and threatened the one thing that kept them together — Mah Jongg.