The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan is a 1991 Society & Culture book written by TED speaker Amy Tan, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Where does creativity hide?" (2008), 3.8M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 17 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 2nd of 4 books by Amy Tan on Books Worth Reading (1990–2017), by publication year.
- Edition: Goldmann, 1991 · 459 pages
The paired TED talk
Where does creativity hide? (2008), the TED talk by Amy Tan.
From the publisher
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. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.