The Satisfaction Cafe : 'Insightful, necessary and beautiful' Ann Patchett

Author: Kathy Wang

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 May 2026 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 352 pages
127 x 198 x 24 | 278g

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?