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The Kitchen God's Wife (1991) relates the story of Jiang Weili from the time she was six years old in the China of 1925 through the present, in which she is Winnie Louie, the widowed matriarch of an extended Chinese family living in San Francisco. Much like The Joy Luck Club, this novel feels as if Tan's ancestors are speaking through her as she transcends herself to triumph over ancestral ghosts. The theme of forgiveness, and the importance of understanding the miseries of others, continue here in Tan's second novel.
The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) is...
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