The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
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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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Chinese fiction, Family, Fiction, California, fiction, China, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Chinese Americans, fiction, Chinese American families, fiction, Chinese, Literature, Romance, United States, Domestic fiction, +Fiction, Families, Female friendship, Mother-daughter relationship, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Asian American, FICTION / Literary, Large type books, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Literature, modern, outlines, syllabi, etc., Modern Literature, Asian Americans, Mother-Child Relations, Chinese American families, Chinese Americans, Mothers and daughtersPlaces
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The Kitchen God's Wife
September 21, 2006, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The Kitchen God's Wife (Cliffs Notes)
December 1996, Cliffs Notes
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in English
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The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Ivy Books
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Originally published: New York : Putnam, c1991.
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