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Original Title: The Kitchen God's Wife
ISBN: 0143038109 (ISBN13: 9780143038108)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Winnie, Auntie Helen, Pearl Bright, Mary, Frank Russell, Roger "Bao Bao", Doug Cheu, Phil Brandt, Tessa Russo, Cleo, Mimi Wong, Loy Fong, Edna Fong, New Aunt, Old Aunt, Wen Fu, Huazheng "Peanut", Uncle Henry
Setting: United States of America
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The Kitchen God's Wife Paperback | Pages: 416 pages
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Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

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Title:The Kitchen God's Wife
Author:Amy Tan
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 416 pages
Published:September 21st 2006 by Penguin Books (first published 1991)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia. Contemporary

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I officially do not want to read anything by Tan again. At least this is how I feel at the moment.Why the three stars: The Kitchen God's Wife is very well written, but I hated what this book was doing to me. The WWII in China is merely a backdrop for the protagonist's personal drama of epic proportions; suffice to say that when something very bad, but not exactly cruel, happened (view spoiler)[(one of protagonist's children dies, quite straightforwardly, of plague) (hide spoiler)], I felt

The Kitchen God is recognized in traditional Chinese culture. His wife is ignored. She does all the chores, suffers all life's hardships, and is never recognized as a deity. The mother-daughter relationship between Chinese-Americans, Pearl and Winnie, is a bit strained. They are from different generations. The Americanized younger generation does not adhere to the subtle rules of social interactions. They don't communicate well with the family's elders. Secrets from from the past remain deeply

I read this when it came out -- I thought I had written a review --no? It's holding -(all these years later) -a lasting wonderful reading impression. The culture -the relationships: struggles and love -the foods - it was all delicious.

Beautiful and poignant. Loved it.

I read this book years ago (okay decades). As with the other books I've read by this author, a lot of untold sorrows with a sort of redemption at the end. Good book.

Maybe its because I just finished it, but I really liked this book. This is a story of a Chinese woman named "Winnie" and the secrets she keeps from her daughter, not only to protect her daughter, but to protect herself and her best friend. As with many of the books we read, Winnie has had a hard life, almost horrific in some respects but the reason I love her is that the story isn't tragic, she doesn't complain about it (too much), or make herself out to be a hero, well except maybe in her own

The bulk of this story takes place in war time in China. With that being said, I liked how this was NOT a story or retelling of that historical fact. It truly was a story of a woman who was torn oftentimes between traditonal China and wanting a better life. Her life had so much tragedy I was sad to read some of it. But it was all told for an important purpose and not just to be told for the story's sake. Amy Tan's characters are always so well developed as well as her descriptions of what is all