The Kitchen God's Wife

by Tan, Amy

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ivy Books, 1992 cover is very rough coming apart in spots. name inside cover. . Mass Market Paperback. Poor.

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.

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On Mar 8 2007, michael341 said:

  "it's beautiful, you won't regret spending your money in buying this book. you will learn many things about chinese culture."

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