The kitchen god's wife / Tan, Amy

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.

Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years. It's now time for Winnie to tell her daughter, Pearl, about her past, which is a journey from a small island outside of Shanghai in the 1920's, across a ravaged China during World War II and eventually to the United States. Her tale contains a secret that not even Helen knows.

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years, but now that she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.