SOURCE: "Pangs of an Abandoned Child," in New York Times Book Review, June 16, 1991, p. 9.
In the following review, Forman Dew points out a few problems with Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, but concludes that the novel is "in the end, greatly satisfying."
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