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Where the past begins : a writer's memoir

Author

Amy Tan

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 921 T161.1 (OSH)

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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.

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