Book Description The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife are two of the important works by this popular novelist. This title, Amy Tan, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Amy Tan through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Amy Tan, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.