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Tan, Amy.
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Tan, Amy.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
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Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Chinese Americans -- Biography.
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Tan, Amy.
Tan, Amy.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
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Where
the
past
begins
: a
writer
's
memoir
/ Amy Tan.
by
Tan, Amy.
Harper Luxe, 2017.
Call #:
LP 921 T161w
Subjects
Tan, Amy.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
URL856
View Amy Tan's TED talk "Where does creativity hide?"
ISBN:
9780062688194 (large print trade pbk.)
Edition:
Large-print ed.
Description:
557 p. (large print) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Prologue. The breaker of combs -- I. Imagination -- A leaky imagination -- Music as muse -- Souvenir from a dream -- Hidden genius -- Reorientation: Homer, Alaska -- II. Memory in emotion -- Genuine emotions -- The feeling of what it felt like when it happened -- A mere mortal at age twenty-five -- A mere mortal at age twenty-six -- How to change fate: step 1 -- III. Retrieving the
past
-- The unfurling of leaves -- The auntie of the woman who lost her mind -- Unstoppable -- Time and distance: age twenty-four -- Time and distance: age fifty -- Time and distance: age sixty -- IV. Unknown endings -- The darkest moment of my life -- Nipping dog -- The father I did not know -- Reliable witness -- V. Reading and writing -- I am the author of this novel -- How I learned to read -- Splayed poem: the road -- Eidolons -- Letters to the editor -- Letters in English -- Why write? -- VI. Language -- Language: a love story -- Intestinal fortitude -- Principles of linguistics -- Companions in the house.
Summary:
"The author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals 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, and mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother. She writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen.
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. Born in Oakland, California, Amy Tan now lives in California and New York. She is the author of the
memoir
The Opposite of Fate."--From publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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