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Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen
In Soy Sauce for Beginners Kirstin Chen explores the dichotomy between tradition and modernity. When her marriage collapses our narrator and protagonist, Gretchen Lin, leaves San Francisco behind and returns to her family home in Singapore. Gretchen begins working at her family’s artisanal soy sauce businessโhence the titleโwhich was recently embroiled in a food-poising…
1st pov, 3 STARS, addiction, Adult, affairs, America, California, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, divorce/separations, drama, family, female authors, food & cooking, friendships, identity, intergenerational, jealousy, Kirstin Chen, MARRIAGE, published in 2014, read in 2021, san francisco, singapore, singaporean, Singaporean author, Soy Sauce for Beginners, work culture
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