Kitchen God's Wife

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Summary: Wonderful...
Review: Amy Tan is better known for The Joy Luck Club than this book, but I will always love The Kitchen God's Wife - it is so beautifully realistic in its depiction of both the surroundings and the emotions. Simply move the locale from China to Malaysia and you have the story of a close female relative of mine, so the book really hit home. The sketches of Chinese-American families were just close enough to stereotype to be funny, but so real that I had tears in my eyes along with the laughter. This is one of the few books I bothered to buy in hardcover - it certainly takes a beating from repeated readings.

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Summary: This Book was one of the few books I've liked in high school
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book because not only did Amy Tans writting capture me completely but the story seemed very realistic and alive. I loved it.

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Summary: Best book I've read all year!
Review: A touching story of a mother revealing her past and life to her adult daughter. You'll read paragraphs that make you laugh and pages that make you cry! The chinese culture used in the stories told by Whennie (The Mom) will grasp your mind and not let go until weeks after you've finished reading it!

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Summary: Wonderful Story Line, Quick Read
Review: I am a great fan of Amy Tan, every book that she writes, I read in a minute flat. I get overly involved in the book and cannot put it down. The Kitchen God's Wife was like her other two books, page turner. I learned alot about the war in China when the book took place. The beginning is rather boring and hard to get into, but it is necesarry to get the proper feel of the book. While I was reading the book, I was crying and could not stop. This is a must read, it defentely gets the reader involved.

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Summary: A Disappointing Tome
Review: It was with great anticipation that I picked up this book, having read the author's first novel. It was a great disappointment. An overlong story, written as if the writer were being paid by the word. The character as victim becomes quite tedious and so, unfortunately, is this over-rated book.

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Summary: Wonderfully written
Review: When i first took this book out of the library, i was doubting whether i could even finish the book, it was a lot thicker than the books i normally read. What surprised me though was that though the story was so long, it never became boring and the storyline did not drag or anything, it was a wonderful story and i enjoyed it a lot. Maybe because I am a Chinese too so i enjoy reading these books about Chinese immigrants and their past. This book was written beautifully too, Amy Tan is one of the best authors in my mind.

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Summary: Wonderful story!
Review: This book is the typical read-in-two-days book, it's very difficult to put down! If you are looking to get lost in a story, no one does it better than Amy Tan. Even if you are not a 2nd generation Chinese-American female, you feel as if you can relate after you finish reading it. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: The Kitchen God's Wife is great
Review: I think MsTan wrote a wonderful book that gives insight in to the realationship of mothers and daughters. It is so well written that it was like i was expereincing everything along with Pearl and Winnie.

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Summary: great book for english project on realism
Review: me, i'm a junior in high school and i had to read this and compare it with kate chopin's the awakening since both had repressed females breaking out of their little niche. the book KGW was kinda long and sometimes i was wondering when the long descriptions would end but most of the time i thought the book was really good. it was intriguing and held my attention for the most part. i do agree with people that this book is a bit on the long side (i fell asleep reading it as i did when i read pride and prejudice) but KGW is worth the time. ~angie

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Summary: This was a great book!!
Review: If I had to chose my favorite book by Amy Tan it would be very difficult because all three are fabulous. The Kitchen God's wife was so good I finished it in less than a week. This book is about a mother and daughter that love each other but have many individual secrets about the past that are revealed. Reading the book made me think about my own relationship with my own mother, and our strengths and weaknesses. Amy Tan captued everything so beautifully on paper that in this review I can't do her justice for this book. Now that I think about it I would have to chose this one as my favorite.