The Resource The Kitchen God's wife, Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's wife, Amy Tan
Resource Information
The item The Kitchen God's wife, Amy Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Kitchen God's wife, Amy Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The Kitchen God's wife
- Title
- The Kitchen God's wife
- Statement of responsibility
- Amy Tan
- Title variation
- kitchen gods wife
- Subject
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- California
- California -- Fiction
- China
- China -- Fiction
- trueChina -- History -- 20th century
- Chinese American families
- Chinese American families -- Fiction
- trueChinese American women
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- trueChinese Americans -- Interracial marriage
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction.lcsh
- trueFamily secrets
- Fiction
- trueGeneration gap
- trueInterracial marriage
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueLos Angeles, California
- Mothers and daughters
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters -- Los Angeles, California
- trueSecrets
- trueWomen with multiple sclerosis
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings
- Summary
- For forty years, in China and in San Francisco, Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept certian confidences. Suddenly, those shattering secrets are about to be revealed. 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
- Award
- ALA Notable Book, 1992.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 058449
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tan, Amy
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG 9-12
- LC call number
- PS3570.A48
- LC item number
- K58 1991c
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 5.2
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated reader
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chinese American families
- Chinese Americans
- Mothers and daughters
- California
- China
- Large type books
- Chinese American families
- Chinese Americans
- Large type books
- Mothers and daughters
- California
- China
- Mothers and daughters
- Chinese Americans
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Kitchen God's wife, Amy Tan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm24320857
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 738 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781560542575
- Lccn
- 91029418
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24320857
- Label
- The Kitchen God's wife, Amy Tan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm24320857
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 738 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781560542575
- Lccn
- 91029418
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24320857
Subject
- California
- California -- Fiction
- China
- China -- Fiction
- trueChina -- History -- 20th century
- Chinese American families
- Chinese American families -- Fiction
- trueChinese American women
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- trueChinese Americans -- Interracial marriage
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction.lcsh
- trueFamily secrets
- Fiction
- trueGeneration gap
- trueInterracial marriage
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueLos Angeles, California
- Mothers and daughters
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters -- Los Angeles, California
- trueSecrets
- trueWomen with multiple sclerosis
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
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