The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" ( Los Angeles Times) from the author of bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement, and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins.
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.Īnd 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. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years.
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