Kitchen God's Wife

The Kitchen God’s Wife is another book about a mother-daughter relationship by Amy Tan. It focuses on the history of the mother while bridging the culture and generation differences between the two. It also explores a minor chapter of the Chinese culture through the eyes of Winnie and tells of how life was like fifty years ago, the hardship they had to endure, and the unjust way of life.
In this book, Winnie often mentions the legend of the Kitchen God. The Kitchen God was supposedly a very rich farmer named Zhang, with a hardworking wife named Guo. Zhang had everything he could ask for but he chose to play with a pretty woman named Lady Li. Lady Li soon chases his wife out of the house, and they manage to squander all of his money within two short years before Lady Li runs off with another man. Zhang is forced to become a beggar an...