Where The Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
by Amy Tan /
2017 / English / EPUB
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FROMNEW YORK TIMES
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
BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY
TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND
THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL
MEMORY
In
InWhere the Past Begins,
Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of
bestselling author ofThe
Joy Luck Club
The
Joy Luck Club and
andThe Valley of Amazement
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.
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.
Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia—the
real reason behind 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 with her father, who died when she
was fifteen. Supplied with candor and characteristic humor,
Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia—the
real reason behind 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 with her father, who died when she
was fifteen. Supplied with candor and characteristic humor,Where the Past Begins
Where the Past Begins takes readers into the
idiosyncratic workings of her writer’s mind, a journey that
explores memory, imagination, and truth, with fiction serving as
both her divining rod and link to meaning.
takes readers into the
idiosyncratic workings of her writer’s mind, a journey that
explores memory, imagination, and truth, with fiction serving as
both her divining rod and link to meaning.
