The Kitchen God's Wife | Characters
Cleo Brandt
Cleo is Pearl and Phil’s three-year-old daughter. She calls her Chinese grandma “Ha-bu.”
Pearl Brandt
Pearl is Winnie’s forty-year-old daughter. She lives fifty miles away from Winnie with her husband, Phil, and their two daughters. She does not feel the same impulse to be with her family for gatherings as her mother does, but she feels a sense of duty to be present.
Pearl works as a linguist and speech therapist for mentally challenged children. She has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis but has not told her mother. She has, however, told Helen,...
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