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The Kitchen God's Wife

By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Gwendoline Yeo
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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.

©2006 Amy Tan (P)2006 Phoenix Books, Inc. United States World Literature China

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Exceptional, tearful and moving

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I found the experiences of ‘Winnie’ in China during the Japanese invasion very compelling and I enjoy the narrator’s evocation of the characters

Authenticity of war torn China

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I read this book 25 years ago and I loved it and 25 years later I love it even more!!!

The mother and her history!!

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