They go anyway, and it's revealed that Pearl has multiple sclerosis (something she has told Helen, but not her own mother). Pearl and her family see these obligations as a chore, presumably because Pearl herself is immersed in her American identity. The first few chapters follow Pearl Brandt, a Chinese-American in San Jose, California, as she describes her "family" - her American husband and two daughters, her mother Winnie, her overbearing Aunt Helen (who is supposedly Winnie's sister-in-law or something she and Winnie have kept each other's secrets for a long time), and the rest of Helen's family as they prepare for, first, the nth engagement party of Pearl's obnoxious cousin Bao-bao, and then the burial of her Great Aunt Du.
The Kitchen God's Wife is a novel by Amy Tan, and, like most of her works, is a novel about Chinese-American female identity.
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