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Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
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Key Information
Authors: Amy Tan
Narrator: Gwendoline Yeo
Fiction Genre: Juvenile Fiction ·
Professional Reviews
: Foran, Charles, Globe and Mail (Toronto): "A fine novel.... exuberant storytelling and rich drama."
Book Editions
: Format: Paperback, 415
Publisher: Penguin Group USA (September 30, 2006)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9780143038108
More Information
Details: 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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