num_pages: 416
description: With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club," a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.
language: English
title: The Kitchen God's Wife
titlecomplete: The Kitchen God's Wife
characters: Phil Brandt, Loy Fong, Old Aunt, Wen Fu, Huazheng "Peanut", New Aunt, Frank Russell, Edna Fong, Roger "Bao Bao", Pearl Rush, Cleo, Doug Cheu, Mimi Wong, Mary, Auntie Helen, Uncle Henry, Tessa Russo, Winnie
genres: China, Asian Literature, Historical, Adult Fiction, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 83305
places: The United States of America
publisher: Putnam