The Kitchen God's Wife

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Summary: A Wonderful novel with rich characters
Review: I can't compare "The Kitchen God's Wife" to any other Amy Tan's novels since I haven't read any besides this one. This heart-felt and touching novel about a mother-daughter relationship moves every reader's heart, including mine.
I never like reading novels with too many pages, and the first time I picked up this book, I thought, "Oh no, I am going to stuck with a 500 pages story. This is going to take me a several weeks to complete." As the result, I finished reading this book in four days.
Tan's story-telling is wonderful in this book. I especially like the way she divides the book in parts, and each part has a narrative of different characters.
I am a chinese immigrant myself, reading Tan's book makes me feel so close to my own Chinese cultural. Somehow, I feel that I can actually relate myself Pearl, the daughter in the novel.
I highly recommand anyone who read this review to read this book. It's very inspirational, touching and well-written.

Rating:
Summary: Page Turner
Review: I recommend this novel to everyone because the author filled every page with exciting events that no one can stop flipping the next page until he or she finishes the book. The author wrote other events besides the Chinese background and a story between a mother and a daughter's relationship. The author talks about the history of World War Two also. Moreover, the author talks about how most husbands in the past mistreated their wives and how women gain their power as they grew stronger and as they experienced many things as time past by.

Rating:
Summary: Touching
Review: This is my first Amy Tan's book. I never got to read Joy Luck Club though I have the book because I saw the motion picture. The movie thorough reached out to my heart. Hence, I bought The Kitchen God's Wife. Initially, the first few pages were extremely boring. It is only when the part whereby Pearl's mother, Winnie, begins to tell a heartwrenching tale her dreadfully agozing past in China. The suffer and hardships endured by Winnie is one that is truly shocking. As the unravel her past to her daughter Pearl and comes to the crucial truth which is Pearl's biological father is actually from Winnie's first cruel husband, Pearl was able to accept this truth and she even understand her mother better. Mother and daughter brought closer together just by telling the truth. I couldn't stop turning the pages once Winnie started to tell her story to Pearl. This book will makes you rethink the rough paths you think you can't cross over but actually these so called "rough paths" are just a part of everyday life. There are people out there who suffered even more hardships but still , able to come through it.