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In Amy Tan’s “The Kitchen God’s Wife”, who was the girl that drained her husband in Chapter 8 “Too Much Yin?”
“Lately I have been dreaming of that girl, imagining what happened to her. I am dreaming of writing Peanut a letter.
Peanut, I will say, do you remember that girl from more than fifty years ago, the one you said drained her husband? Yesterday I saw her. Yes, that’s right, in America I saw her. Her in-laws died during the war, typhoid fever. And then she came to this country and married someone new, Chinese of course.
She is now much older, but you can still tell, when she was young she was pretty, much prettier than the way Turtle Uncle described her. And she and her second husband are still very happy together-that’s right, after forty years of marriage.
…Of course it’s a true story. I saw her myself. I found out where she lives. I walked by her house. And she waved to me from her window.”
She doesn’t have a name, she was just called the wife of Yau. You quoted the book, the story of the girl with too much yin was right before that passage. Her husband died while they were having sex. Since she had too much yin, she drained her husband of his yang until he died.
Amy Tan – Finding Meaning through Writing
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