The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1991 • G.P. Putnam's Sons

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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan 

FIRST EDITION [1989] G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS

8th printing / 1989

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is mint.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book looks beautiful, with stunning metallic embossed boards.  Creased front panel on jacket and some trace foxing to text block.  Otherwise, excellent. 


Winnie and Helen have kept each others worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.