The Kitchen God's Wife
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 89951 readers · 479 pages · ≈ 8 h 52 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Kitchen God's Wife?
About ≈ 8 h 52 m — 479 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Kitchen God's Wife?
479 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Kitchen God's Wife?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is The Kitchen God's Wife in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who are the main characters in The Kitchen God's Wife?
The main characters include Winnie, Helen, Pearl.
Where does The Kitchen God's Wife take place?
It is set in California, China during 1920's to 1949.
Who wrote The Kitchen God's Wife?
Amy Tan (1952–0).