Kathy Wang

The Satisfaction Café, by Kathy Wang, follows the life of Joan Liang, a Taiwanese woman who emigrates to California and navigates multiple marriages, motherhood, unexpected wealth, and assimilation in the white, upper class society that appears to accept her. Throughout her life, Joan grapples with the desire for genuine connection in an increasingly lonely world. A trip to Taiwan reveals a way for Joan to connect people to one another and to find connection for herself. The Satisfaction Cafe is Wang’s third novel.  She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Business School and lives in the Bay Area.

“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.” — The Washington Post.