The Kitchen God's Wife: Amy Tan

Wow, this was an amazing book. I really respect the author for putting herself in the light of how her mother sees her and not that she is always right- it speaks volumes of her as a person. The story was both heartbreaking and hard to set down. Amy talks about visiting her mother after a family member's funeral and how her mother's friend told her mother she would tell Amy the truth about their secrects if she didn't. The "story" within the story starts in China in the 1920's where the mom, weiwei, remembers her mother suddenly leaving. She is sent to live with her father's brother, where she is not loved, but not treated unkindly. She has an arranged marriage and a husband who treats her poorly. The Novel continues with Weiwei's story and occasionally picks up characters that Amy knows in her life in California and the connectedness of the people in her life all comes together. This was beautifully crafted .