Kathy Wang The Satisfaction Café review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 1 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner de roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Kathy Wang. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Kathy Wang The Satisfaction Café review en recensie
- “Kathy Wang’s sumptuous new novel The Satisfaction Café beguiled me so fiercely I wanted, once finished, to un-remember it so I could relish it again for the first time… this deft, sharp, funny, poignant chronicle delights and surprises: modern, complex, credibly absurd… One of the richest, prickliest, wittiest contemporary sagas I can recall, Satisfaction is—I’m sorry, no other words work—profoundly satisfying… Every detail mesmerizes… The more we read the more we crave.” (John Frank, Boston Globe)
- “An antidote to our global dissatisfaction… winsome… Ironic but rarely biting, Wang’s narration moves nimbly just above Joan’s perplexed perspective while catching the notes of absurdity and hypocrisy around her.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)
- “Kathy Wang is a born storyteller, vivid and precise, deliciously cool-eyed, immensely readable.” (Jonathan Franzen)
- “The Satisfaction Café is both deep and wide, tracing the arc of a single life and then showing how that life ripples out across family, friends, and time. At every turn Joan proves to be more insightful and more necessary than people believed her to be, the result of which is this insightful, necessary, and beautiful novel.” (Ann Pratchett)
The Satisfaction Café
- Auteur: Kathy Wang (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Scribner
- Verschijnt: 1 juli 2025
- Omvang: 352 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Kathy Wang
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 Café, 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 Caféis 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.
Kathy Wang is the author of Family Trust, Imposter Syndrome, and The Satisfaction Café. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School, and lives in the Bay Area.
