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    The Kitchen God's Wife
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Kitchen God's Wife

    Written by Amy Tan

    Narrated by Gwendoline Yeo

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    About this audiobook

    For decades—in China and in San Francisco—Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths—not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust—about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter, about the secret that daughters keep, and about the miraculous resiliency of love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhoenix Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 24, 2006
    ISBN9781607473329
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    Author

    Amy Tan

    Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

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    • 5/5
      A beautiful story filled with tragedy that leads to a happy resolution. The happiness and joy are very subtle and realistic, but enduring. This story does touch on sexual assault, domestic violence, the violence of war, and loss of children.

      It doesn’t glorify these but uses them as a backdrop of horror in which happy moments , friendship, and non romantic love can be found.

      I recommend, but possibly not for everyone.
    • 4/5
      Once again I was drawn into the lives of Amy Tan’s complex characters.
      I thoroughly enjoyed this amazing story and now I have to decide which of her books will be next on my TBR