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Republic of the Philippines ABRA STATE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY Bangued Campus, Bangued Abra â€Å"The kitchen GOD’S wife† A BOOK REVIEW (‘A BOOK OF AMY TAN†) Prepared by; Maricel B, Dalingay BEED11-C Prepared for; Mr. Rommel Yahin Instructor 1. The author Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan s adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful. She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter s Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The†¦show more content†¦Winnie manages to suffer through her manage while surviving World War II. She loses many children along the way, some to early deaths and one that was stillborn. It is during the War that Winnie becomes friends with Helen, whose name in China was Hulan. By telling her daughter about this friendship, Winnie is revealing that Helen and Winnie are not really in-laws as the family in America believes, but only friends who have gone through much hardship together. Winnie had had to lie and say that Helen was her dead brother s first wife in order to bring Helen to the United States, after Winnie had already been in the United States for a while. Winnie lived her new husband Jimmy Louie, the man whom Pearl had always been told was her father. Jimmie Louie was a good husband, a good father, and a minister in the Chinese Baptist Church, but he had died when Pearl was a teenager. Winnie had met Jimmy Louie in China, at an American dance. He was American born, though his background was Chinese, and he was extremely kind. The two fell in love, and Pearl escaped with him, after running away from Wen Fu. 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