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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

Tan, Amy

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Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 0062319299
ISBN13: 9780062319296
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Oct 17 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 gives evidence to 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.

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