Joan Liang is a woman from Taiwan who has moved to California. She marries a man named Bill, an older, wealthy American man who she gets to children with. During her marriage with Bill she truly questions if she fits in with his family, who truly are opiniated about Asian woman and in particularly her, as Joan was married before with an abusive man. She sometimes struggles also with motherhood, as Bill is almost always away for work, and she is mostly on her own in the grand expansive house.
Later on in the story, Bill sadly passes away due to illness, and even more later in the book Joan opens the Satisfaction Café. Altough this is also the title of the book, the café part only plays a very tiny part in the book.
Most of the story is about the Joans daily struggles in life, and later on, the struggles in life of her two children. Mostly this is the overal tone of the book, and more or less the whole storyline, and the opening and managing of her Satisfaction Café truly didn't add anything specific to the story or made a change in Joan's life.
The end of the story takes a tragic turn though as Joan is getting dementia, that was more or less besides Bill passing away the only two mayor plot twists. So this is also why I have mixed feelings about this book. The storyline didn't have enough plot development or twist, turns or changes to stay interested as a reader in the character of Joan. I think a better title of this book would have been '''The life of Joan before and after the opening of the Satisfaction Café.
I truly expected more of this story, and this is not a book that I particularly recommend.
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