The Kitchen God's Wife

by Tan, Amy

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ivy Books. Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Mass Market Paperbac. 080410753x . Tight spine, light creasing to spine, nice glossy cover with light scratches and light rubbing, normal shelf wear to edges and corners, text is clean and tight, pages nice with light tanning and few bent corners,edge is a little dirty,532pp. Great Read!! .

Book summary

Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to a cowardly fighter pilot in the Sino-Japanese war and how he may or may not be Pearl's father. Meanwhile Pearl gathers the strength confide her great secret, that she has multiple sclerosis, to her mother.