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...writer achieved fortune and fame. First-time novelist Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a loosely connected series of stories about Chinese-American mothers and daughters, sold an astonishing 275,000 hard-cover copies. Publishers took note, and this spring brings not only Tan's second novel, The Kitchen God's Wife, but also splendid debuts by three other Chinese-American writers...
...outset of The Kitchen God's Wife (Putnam; 415 pages; $22.95), one's apprehensions begin to gather like avenging furies: the opening pages introduce us to a young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene that made up the least transporting parts of The Joy Luck Club. For two chapters the young woman tells a pleasant but unremarkable tale of sweet-and-sour tensions, haunted by her nagging mother -- and by her nagging sense that her mother and she are speaking different languages. Then, on page...
...menu is simple but nutritious: fillet of trout meuniere, accompanied by steamed red potatoes, glazed beets and stir-fried vegetables. Sixteen students clad in double-breasted white cook's blouses take notes as chef Kathy Shepard begins her lecture at one of eight stoves in the crowded kitchen. "I want to see lots of colors on the plates," she says of the stir-fry. "Put in garlic if you want. That will be your outlet for creativity today." Then she picks up a slab of fish and shows how to ready it for the saute pan. After the demonstration...
...guest for the weekend, answered the door and told the officers that the Senator was not there and that his nephew might have already left town. In fact, both men were at the house, and a servant later told investigators that Barry and the Senator conferred in the kitchen right after the police left. Police say that when they phoned an hour later, a housekeeper told them Barry had taken the Senator and Smith to the airport. Yet Kennedy did not depart until the next...
...easily salable items like the TV and VCR were left behind, indicating that he had a source of income. She was tied very tightly, suggesting that her attacker was strong, possibly a laborer. There were no signs that he washed up after the attack in either the bathroom or kitchen; therefore he probably lived or worked within walking distance. This also suggested he may have known the victim at least by sight...