Finally, she settled in with incense and recorded music over earphones - plus a telephone-answering machine to assure herself of the privacy and calm she needed. She shuffled through six plots and wearying weeks of book tours, speeches, volunteer projects, and literary luncheons. Tan admits to feeling daunted by the success of The Joy Luck Club as she approached the writing of her next book.
Appreciation of The Kitchen God's Wife can be enhanced by learning how Tan carried out the awesome task of its creation. Our literature, however, abounds with memorable first novels by authors who never published another successful book. Since Tan realized such phenomenal success with her first published book, The Joy Luck Club, a reader might assume she could immediately go on to write another blockbuster novel.
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