A review by ginbat
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

dark emotional sad tense

2.75

Very good writing but absolutely horrific. Reading the book summary you would never guess how dark it was. I feel like I have second hand trauma. The writer is talented in that she paints very vivid and emotional pictures with her words, but I did not like this book, was not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, War, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abortion, Colonisation, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Confinement, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, and Mass/school shootings

Lots of rape