Large print book
Where the past begins : a writer's memoir
Edition
Large Print edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Physical Description
xi, 557 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"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."--
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.