Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir

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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 creator 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 bizarre 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 turn out to be a author. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional mind-set unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. 

Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by circle of relatives memorabilia—the actual reason at the back of an IQ 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 along with her father, who died when she was once fifteen. Supplied with candor and characteristic humor, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her author’s mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth, with fiction serving as both her divining rod and link to meaning. 

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