The Kitchen God's Wife | The Kitchen God's Wife

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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

In The Kitchen God's Wife, Auntie Helen confronts her friend Winnie, who has secrets, and Winnie's married daughter Pearl, who has multiple sclerosis but is afraid to face her mother. Helen announces that they must confide in each other or she, who is dying of a “B nine” brain tumor, will tell everything. Winnie agrees and summons her estranged daughter.

Winnie's mother, born into wealth and educated in a missionary school, had met a young revolutionary and threatened to swallow gold if her family did not allow them to marry. Instead, she was made second wife to her...

The Kitchen God's Wife | The Kitchen God's Wife

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