The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

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Description

  • Author: Amy Tan

  • Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons

  • Year: 1991

  • Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

  • Condition: Near Fine covered with brodart

  • ISBN: 9780399134625

  • Printing: First Edition, later printing

  • Printed in: United States

Description

One of Amy Tan’s most beloved novels, The Kitchen God’s Wife is a powerful, emotionally layered story of mothers and daughters, memory and silence, and the long shadows cast by history.

Told through alternating generations, the novel moves between contemporary San Francisco and wartime China, revealing the hidden life of Winnie Louie and the experiences she kept buried for decades. As mother and daughter finally begin to speak honestly, the story unfolds with Tan’s signature blend of warmth, sorrow, cultural richness, and keen psychological insight.

This is a novel readers return to—not just for the story, but for the depth of feeling and the way Tan captures the complexity of family bonds across cultures and generations.

 

Why We Love This Book

Amy Tan has a rare ability to tell intimate stories that also carry the weight of history. This novel is quietly devastating, compassionate, and deeply human—one of her most enduring works.