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The Satisfaction Café : a novel / Kathy Wang.
"Joan's life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode -- especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café, a place where customers can find connection through conversation. With humor and grace, Joan creates a space for meaningful relationships and constructs a lasting legacy."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668068922 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 340 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2025.
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| Subject: | Remarriage > Fiction. Restaurants > Fiction. Stepmothers > Fiction. Taiwanese Americans > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Wang | 31681010426252 | FICTION | Available | - |
- B & T Entertainment
After a failed marriage and a whirlwind romance with a wealthy American, Joan Liang builds a new life in California, eventually opening the Satisfaction Café, where she creates a space for connection while searching for fulfillment in her ever-changing world. - Baker & Taylor
"An engrossing and original story about a woman who moves from Taiwan to California and builds an unexpected life there"-- - Simon and Schuster
National Bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Summer by People, Oprah Daily, and Today.com
How do we live so that we are satisfied? How can people connect during moments of loneliness? This is the story of Joan Liang, a woman who moves across the world to America, and in trying to answer these questions builds a wildly original life.
Joanâs life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implodeâespecially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children.
Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café, a place where customers can find connection through conversation. With humor and grace, Joan creates a space for meaningful relationships and constructs a lasting legacy.
Vivid, comic, and profoundly moving, The Satisfaction Café is a novel about found family, the joy and loneliness that come with age, and how we can seek satisfaction at any stage of life. This is a novel of tremendous pleasures: sentences that teem with rich observations, wonderful plotting, and, in Joan, a protagonist for the ages.
