The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

Amy Tan is one of my favorite authors. I love how she write about mothers and daughters and incorportaes all of the chinese traditions and culture. The Kitchen God's Wife is about a mother and daughter who have kept big secret's from each other and they have eaten away at their relationship. The mother finally tells the daughter the story of her real father and when she was born. The book takes you back to China during WWII and how "Whinnie" had to survive not only the Japanese, but a bad marriage. Her father and Aunts marry her off to Wen Fu who is a horrible person. Whinnie struggles to leave him while also following the Chinese culture for women. She has 3 children by him who all die. She oen day meets a Chinese American, Jimmie Louie and falls in love. She leaves Wen Fu and moves to Americal with Jimmie and lives happily ever after, but tnot before Wen Fu impregnates her with her daughter, Pearl.