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Title: The Kitchen God's Wife
Author: Amy Tan
Genre: Cultural
Rating: 2/5
# pages: Audiobook ~16hrs
Date read: July, 2011

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 terible 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 tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

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 threw me for a loop in TKGW was that the main character wasn't who you thought it was going to be. In fact, it turned out to be a person who'd been described rather unsympathetically in the first few chapters, so I wasn't inclined to like her, and really didn't care about what happened to her -- which kind of defeated the purpose of reading the book, as all but the final two chapters was about her! I seem to recall Amy Tan doing something similar in TJLC, so it's apparently her way of writing - which just confirms that I won't be reading any more of her work.
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