Named a Best Book of the Summer by\u00a0<\/b>People, Oprah Daily,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>and\u00a0<\/b>Today.com<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/b><\/p>\n
Joan\u2019s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode\u2014especially 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.<\/p>\n
Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Caf\u00e9, 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.<\/p>\n
Vivid, comic, and profoundly moving,\u00a0The Satisfaction Caf\u00e9\u00a0<\/i>is a novel about found family,\u00a0<\/i>the joy and loneliness that come with age, and\u00a0<\/i>how we can seek satisfaction at any stage of\u00a0<\/i>life. This is a novel of tremendous pleasures:\u00a0<\/i>sentences that teem with rich observations,\u00a0<\/i>wonderful plotting, and, in Joan, a protagonist\u00a0<\/i>for the ages.<\/p>\n