Description
National Bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Summer by People, Oprah Daily, and Today.com
A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick
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.
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 Caf?, 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 Caf? 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Kathy Wang
Published: 07/01/2025
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 9781668068922
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 1.50″ H x 9.10″ L x 6.20″ W
About the Author
Kathy Wang is the author of Family Trust, Imposter Syndrome, and The Satisfaction Caf?. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School, and lives in the Bay Area.
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