Kitchen God's Wife

by Amy Tan | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 080410753x Global Overview for this book
Registered by wrwf-1 of Sarasota, Florida USA on 4/14/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by wrwf-1 from Sarasota, Florida USA on Saturday, April 14, 2007
I'm cleaning out my bookshelves and decided to release this one. It's been several years since I've read it, so I don't remember many details. I do remember getting a new insight into the intricacies of Chinese families and the trials of immigrating to a new country. It was interesting to see our country's workings from a different perspective and to understand the complications of living in two cultures.

Released 16 yrs ago (4/14/2007 UTC) at Williams Sonoma kitchen store @ Westfield Plaza 41 in Sarasota, Florida USA

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Williams Sonoma store @ Westfield Shopping Plaza (formerly Southgate Mall) on Tamiami Trail (US 41)

Journal Entry 3 by tczoutes from Palmetto, Florida USA on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
I found this book on a chair at a Williams Sonoma store at an upscale mall in Sarasota, Florida. At first, I thought someone left a purchase and I was going to return it to the counter, but I was delighted to see that it was an Amy Tan book and that it invited me to read it!

Journal Entry 4 by tczoutes at World Savings Bank in Sun City Center, Florida USA on Saturday, November 24, 2007

Released 16 yrs ago (11/24/2007 UTC) at World Savings Bank in Sun City Center, Florida USA

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Gave to a friend ... who is undergoing surgery. In the bag, I also tucked in my entire collection of Kinky Friedman books, which I hope find a good home. I liked Amy Tan's book, and I was disappointed by it. Tan paints wonderfully rich "mother" characters but seems to leave the "daughter" character flat. While I am captured by the mom's background stories in her books, it seems the book's mother-daughter relationship is lifeless and unexplored. And I find myself questioning the reasons why the mom chose to live such a routine, uneventful life in America. It's sad that Mom does not imbue her own daughter's soul with the challenges and experiences of life in China during World War II. Don't get me wrong, Tan's ability to capture life in China is worth every minute spent reading it. But wrapping up the relationship so neatly in the final pages leaves the reader unsatisfied.

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