The Kitchen God’s Wife (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Tan
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Family literature
- Subjects: Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Prisoners, Abused persons, Twentieth century, Marriage, Abandoned children, Domestic violence, Rape, Ministry or ministers, Immigration or emigration, War, Multiculturalism, Divorce, Remarriage, Abandonment, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Women’s rights, Multiple sclerosis
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, China
Theme, characters, situations, and style stamp THE KITCHEN GOD’S Wife as a successor to Amy Tan’s best-selling first novel, THE JOY LUCK CLUB. That book linked short stories of four daughters of four mothers to develop their relationships set in California and China. THE KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE zooms in on one such mother-daughter pair.
The novel opens with the lack of communication between Weili Jiang ("Winnie"), an immigrant-generation Chinese mother, and her thoroughly American daughter, Pearl. Pearl cannot tell her mother about her multiple sclerosis, while Weili keeps...
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