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The kitchen god's wife, Amy Tan

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The kitchen god's wife, Amy Tan
Language
eng
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fiction
Main title
The kitchen god's wife
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123735834
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Amy Tan
Summary
For forty years, In China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Secrets are about to be revealed. Helen, convinced that she is dying of a terminal, illness, decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths; her own and Winnie's and also the dreadful news that Winnie's daughter Pearl has been keeping from her mother. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss and trust, about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter the secrets daughters keep, and the miraculous resiliency of love
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