The Satisfaction Cafe follows Joan Liang who is a Taiwanese woman who moves to California. She marries a Chinese man called Milton but her marriage quickly implodes and she ends up marrying an older, white, wealthy American man and is his fourth wife. She never expected her life to become like this and she constantly asks herself if she’s satisfied with her life.

This had a slow start but I slowly grew to love this. This is really a story about life and a lot of it isn’t the most interesting and it’s quite sad. This switches POV from Joan to her husband’s son Theo, and to her two children. I really loved this and it was easy to connect to Joan. The story was quite beautiful and the ending really impactful. I would recommend this book and I appreciated this so much. I would recommend this for fans of Dream State by Eric Puchner and Shanghailanders by Juli Min.