![]() ![]() In fact, she estimates that ‘‘the outtakes must now number close to a thousand pages’’ (6). (5)Īmy Tan did ultimately complete a novel for publication, but only after she had ‘‘deleted hundreds of pages from computer’s memory’’ (7). a pain in my neck, which later radiated to my jaw, resulting in constant gnashing, then two cracked teeth and, finally a huge dental bill. ![]() I developed literal symptoms of the imagined weight of my task. In fact, she points out in ‘‘Angst and the Second Novel,’’ she agonized so much about her second novel that she damaged her health and suffered from debilitating physical discomfort: Like many writers whose first books have received spectacular and widespread attention, Tan admits that she was more than a little apprehensive about the critical and popular reception that her second published novel would receive, knowing that reviewers and readers would inevitably be unable to resist comparing the second book with the first. In 1991, two years after her tremendous success with The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan published The Kitchen God’s Wife. Critical Analysis of Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife ![]()
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