{"product_id":"the-kitchen-gods-wife-9780143038108","title":"The Kitchen God's Wife","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinnie 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Kitchen God's Wife \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a beautiful book\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) from the bestselling author of novels like \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Backyard Bird Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoir, \u003ci\u003eWhere the Past Begins.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Tan \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kitchen God's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Secret Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bonesetter's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaving Fish from Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Valley of Amazement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Backyard Bird Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, and two children's books, \u003ci\u003eThe Moon Lady \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Siamese Cat\u003c\/i\u003e, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and co-screenwriter of the film version of\u003ci\u003e The Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613385462034,"sku":"9780143038108","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52997368-3e1d-4e4b-a9b3-54c5cf6a19bf.jpg?v=1732399061","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-kitchen-gods-wife-9780143038108","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}