description: 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.
language: English
title: The Kitchen God's Wife
titlecomplete: The Kitchen God's Wife (Limited Edition)
characters: Uncle Henry, Tessa Russo, Frank Russell, Wen Fu, Roger "Bao Bao", Mimi Wong, Old Aunt, Winnie, Loy Fong, Pearl Rush, Doug Cheu, Phil Brandt, Cleo, Edna Fong, Huazheng "Peanut", Auntie Helen, New Aunt, Mary
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Asia, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Asian Literature, Historical, China
ratings_count: 83321
places: The United States of America
publisher: Putnam Adult