The Satisfaction Café (e-book) (used book) | Kathy Wang | bookbook.eu

Description

An engrossing and original story, equally rich with pleasure and misfortune, of a woman who moves from Taiwan to California and builds an unexpected life, for readers of Olive Kitteridge and Hello Beautiful.

For Joan Liang, life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan (and for California of all places), 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 and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all of these developments she asks herself the familiar question: is this it? What is all this living is for?

As Joan and her children grow older and their circumstances evolve, Joan decides to make a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café--a place where the lonely can come for conversation and be heard and seen in all their messy honesty. Through this radical yet pragmatic business, Joan constructs a lasting legacy of human connection.

Vivid and intensely moving, The Satisfaction Café is a captivating novel about the bonds of family, the joy and loneliness that come with age, and how we can allow ourselves to seek satisfaction and belonging at any stage of our lives.