The Satisfaction Café

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. 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. Through all this she contends with the persistent question : Will she ever feel truly satisfied ? As Joan and her children grow older, 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 the story of Joan Liang, a woman who moves across the world to America and builds a wildly original life.