Originally published in 1991, Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife gives us (well, at least me) more of what we loved from The Joy Luck Club: a story in which a mother reveals a hidden life of hardship in China to her daughter. While the book opens on Winnie Louie’s daughter and the misunderstandings th...
Well, it seems that I'm likely to have a Chinese-American son-in-law, so I figured I should begin learning something about his culture, or at least that of his parents. When my younger son lived in Japan, I read quite a lot of Japanese literature so as better to understand the culture in which he wa...
I officially do not want to read anything by Tan again. At least this is how I feel at the moment.Why the three stars: The Kitchen God's Wife is very well written, but I hated what this book was doing to me. The WWII in China is merely a backdrop for the protagonist's personal drama of epic proporti...
This is a story that spans decades. Begun in the present day by the first person narrative of Pearl, the bulk of the story is told by her seventy-four-year-old mother Winnie (Weili) as she relates to her daughter the tale of her first marriage, telling of what it was like in China during and after W...
The Undertaking of Lily Chen is a dark, moodily atmospheric graphic novel with an odd, snatched from the headlines premise. Apparently, recently deceased women go missing in China because an old tradition dictates that unmarried men be married and buried with a female corpse to insure they have some...
interest in China comes in waves?1989 Amy Tan releases 'Joy Luck Club' and it becomes a Hollywood sensation; 330,000 ratings here on Goodreads... implies millionaire status or whatnot.1991 follows up... but this work lacks the same magic. lots of Shanghai in 1937 action, but without real access to k...
Best book I've read in a long time... I absolutely adore Winnie.There are definitely some disturbing parts--violence, rape, hardships, lack of understanding. Sometimes my heart just ached...I'm having a hard time being coherent about this one. Don't have too much to say besides I loved it!
This is a serious story. It's about being trapped in an awful abusive marriage which you can't escape from. I read this book and I'm just amazed by how Amy Tan just writes about these incredible women, who are so so brave and strong to have endured as much as they have. The way she writes you can be...
I think I must accept that I'm just not into Amy Tan's books. I read "The Joy Luck Club" a couple of years ago and was bored by it, but figured she deserved an extra chance. She got that with "The Kitchen God's Wife", but unfortunately didn't manage to change my opinion of her work.One thing that th...
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