Where the past begins
Subtitle: a writer's memoir
By: Amy Tan
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9780062688194
Subjects: American Novelists; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Biography; Large type books
Description: "In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get older."--
Table of contents: title: Prologue. The breaker of combs; title: I. Imagination; title: A leaky imagination; title: Music as muse; title: Souvenir from a dream; title: Hidden genius; title: Reorientation: Homer, Alaska; title: II. Memory in emotion; title: Genuine emotions; title: The feeling of what it felt like when it happened; title: A mere mortal at age twenty-five; title: A mere mortal at age twenty-six; title: How to change fate: step 1; title: III. Retrieving the past; title: The unfurling of leaves; title: The auntie of the woman who lost her mind; title: Unstoppable; title: Time and distance: age twenty-four; title: Time and distance: age fifty; title: Time and distance: age sixty; title: IV. Unknown endings; title: The darkest moment of my life; title: Nipping dog; title: The father I did not know; title: Reliable witness; title: V. Reading and writing; title: I am the author of this novel; title: How I learned to read; title: Splayed poem: the road; title: Eidolons; title: Letters to the editor; title: Letters in English; title: Why write?; title: VI. Language; title: Language: a love story; title: Intestinal fortitude; title: Principles of linguistics; title: Companions in the house.