The Satisfaction Café

National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post. Named a Best Book of the Summer by People, Oprah Daily,. and Today. A LibraryReads. Top 10 Pick. 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 Café. is 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.