The Kitchen God's Wife

For Forty Years, In China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Secrets are about to be revealed. Helen, convinced that she is dying of a terminal, illness, decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths; her own and Winnie's and also the dreadful news that winnie's daughter Pearl has been keeping from her Mother. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss and trust, about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter the secrets daughters keep, and the miraculous resiliency of love.