Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Fair
Listed - A month ago
Views - 3
Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2005
Seller Description
Comes from a clean, smoke-free, and pet-free home 📚 Book condition - fair; has been well loved and may have some (but not detrimental) creases, highlights/writing, tears, discoloration, or stains, may be an ex-library copy The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan "Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. "The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Additional Information
The Kitchen God's Wife
ISBN: 9780804107532
Publisher Description
A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings
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