num_pages: 415
description: Winnie and Helen have kept each others 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
characters: Mary, Wen Fu, Huazheng "Peanut", Loy Fong, Frank Russell, Cleo, Winnie, Tessa Russo, Mimi Wong, Auntie Helen, Pearl Rush, Edna Fong, Doug Cheu, New Aunt, Old Aunt, Roger "Bao Bao", Phil Brandt, Uncle Henry
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Asian Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 83308
places: The United States of America
publisher: Putnam