The Satisfaction Cafe

'Insightful, necessary and beautiful' Ann Patchett

By: Kathy Wang

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Paperback | 24 June 2025 | Edition Number 1

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'Vivid and precise, deliciously cool-eyed, immensely readable' Jonathan Franzen

'Evokes the narrative power of classic Anne Tyler' Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher

'I loved this novel and its heroine so much. A must-read' J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Cliffs

Joan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan (and for all places, 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 and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all this she asks herself the question familiar to so many of us: what are we living for? And are we ever truly satisfied?

Vivid, comic and intensely moving, The Satisfaction Cafe is a novel about all of the joy, sorrow, betrayal and beauty that come with marriage and family - and above all, about life's endless capacity to surprise us.

About the Author

Kathy Wang is the author of Family Trust and Impostor Syndrome. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School, and lives in the Bay Area.

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Kathy Wang is a born storyteller, vivid and precise, deliciously cool-eyed, immensely readable.

Evokes the narrative power of classic Anne Tyler, infused with Wang's signature humour, warmth and wisdom

Wang's characters are so real and flawed and human you expect them to spring from the page

Subtle, surprising, and elegantly constructed, The Satisfaction Cafe is an insightful and funny exploration of how seldom our choices feel like choices; how rare and elusive the idea of home can feel

Praise for Family Trust: - -

A globe-trotting, whirlwind, tragi-comic family saga that wrings tears from absurdity and laughter from loss. A joy to read from start to finish

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