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The Kitchen God's Wife Summary & Study Guide Description
The Kitchen God's Wife Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Kitchen God's Wife Plot Summary
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Chapters One-Two
The first two chapters of The Kitchen God's Wife are narrated by Pearl Brandt, the daughter of Winnie Louie, a Chinese woman who immigrated to the United States in adulthood. Winnie has convinced Pearl to attend an engagement banquet for her cousin in San Francisco. Reluctantly, Pearl agrees and then stays in the city an extra day to attend the funeral of Auntie Du.
During the engagement banquet, Winnie's close friend Helen tells Pearl she (Helen) has a brain tumor and will be forced to reveal Pearl's secret (that she has multiple sclerosis) to her mother unless she tells her herself. She hints that her mother also has secrets she may share with her daughter.
The relationship between Winnie and Pearl is strained because the Americanized daughter and her immigrant mother have little in common. The one thing they both understand is their grief, years previously, over the...
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