Are You Facing and Failing When You're Writing?

Ten years passed between the publication of Free Food to Millionaires and the publication of your second novel, Bachinko. You've said that if you could do it again, you wouldn't have taken so long. And that failing and floundering is horrible and humiliating. Why do you perceive it as floundering? In 2017, right after I became a financial and national book award, that year my husband had lost his job.