The Kitchen God's Wife

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan

For decades — in China and in San Francisco — Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths — not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust — about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter, about the secret that daughters keep, and about the miraculous resiliency of love.

Read by Amy Tan, this second novel by the author of The Joy Luck Club was a New York Times best seller.

©2006 Amy Tan (P)2006 Phoenix Books, Inc.

This version is abridged.

I would not have purchased this if I knew it was abridged, especially since there is an unabridged version on the app. Unfortunately I didn't use a credit to purchase so I can return and get they full version. Was very disappointed.