cover image The Kitchen God's Wife

The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan. Ivy Books, $7.99 (544pp) ISBN 978-0-8041-0753-2

Tan's ( The Joy Luck Club ) mesmerizing second novel, again a story that a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter, received a PW boxed review, spent 18 weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list and was a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection in cloth. (June)