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Where the Past Begins - Memory and Imagination (Paperback, Edition)
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Where the Past Begins - Memory and Imagination (Paperback, Edition)
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her
life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship
between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins,
bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and
inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving
into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of
self-doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from
her mother, she gathers together evidence of all that made it both
unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through
spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of
mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional
nucleus of her novels. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by
family memorabilia - the real reason behind an I.Q. test she took
at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries
surrounding her maternal grandmother - and, for the first time
publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father,
who died when she was fifteen. Written with candour and
characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the
idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that
explores memory, imagination, and truth.
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