Name: The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
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The Kitchen God’s Wife – 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. Condition: Good,foxing, contact plastic covering.

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“The Kitchen God’s Wife,” by Amy Tan, explores the intricate relationship between Winnie, a Chinese-American mother, and her daughter, Pearl, as they navigate their lives in America while grappling with secrets and cultural differences.

The novel delves into the experiences of Winnie, whose life in China was marked by hardship and abuse, and how she eventually finds a new life in America, yet continues to struggle with the past.

Pearl, on the other hand, is a young woman attempting to reconcile her Americanized identity with her mother’s traditional ways. The story reveals secrets, family tensions, and the search for identity, particularly within the context of the Chinese immigrant experience.