The Kitchen God’s Wife (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Tan
- First Published: 1991
- 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
The Work
The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan’s second novel, is concerned with a young, Americanized Chinese American woman’s quest to accept her heritage, and in so doing accept her family, especially her mother. The first section of the novel, told from the daughter Pearl’s point of view, concerns Pearl’s difficult relationship with her mother, Winnie. Pearl perceives Winnie only as an old, unfashionable woman with trivial concerns. Pearl is troubled by a secret that she believes she cannot tell her mother. Pearl has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but...
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