The Kitchen God's Wife

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The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter. (more)

The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter. (less)

For forty years, In China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Secrets are about to be revealed. Helen, convince... (more)

For forty years, In China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Secrets are about to be revealed. Helen, convinced that she is dying of a terminal, illness, decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths; her own and Winnie's and also the dreadful news that Winnie's daughter Pearl has been keeping from her mother. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss and trust, about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter the secrets daughters keep, and the miraculous resiliency of love. (less)

For forty years, in China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept certian confidences. Suddenly, th... (more)

For forty years, in China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept certian confidences. Suddenly, those shattering secrets are about to be revealed. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust; about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter; the secrets daughters keep; and the miraculous resiliency of love. (less)