Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir

Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir
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In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and 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.Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia – the real reason behind an I.Q. 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 candour and characteristic humour, 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.

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Amy Tan. Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir

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INTRODUCTION. WHERE THE PAST BEGINS

PROLOGUE. THE BREAKER OF COMBS. An Outtake from an Abandoned Novel

CHAPTER ONE. A LEAKY IMAGINATION

CHAPTER TWO. MUSIC AS MUSE

[ QUIRK ] Souvenir from a Dream

CHAPTER THREE. HIDDEN GENIUS

Interlude. REORIENTATION: HOMER, ALASKA

CHAPTER FOUR. GENUINE EMOTIONS

CHAPTER FIVE. THE FEELING OF WHAT IT FELT LIKE WHEN IT HAPPENED

[ QUIRK ] A Mere Mortal at Age Twenty-Five

A Mere Mortal at Age Twenty-Six

[ QUIRK ] How to Change Fate: Step 1

Interlude. THE UNFURLING OF LEAVES

Interlude. THE AUNTIE OF THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER MIND

CHAPTER SIX. UNSTOPPABLE

[ QUIRK ] Time and Distance: Age Twenty-Four

Time and Distance: Age Fifty

Time and Distance: Age Sixty

CHAPTER SEVEN. THE DARKEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE

[ QUIRK ] Nipping Dog

CHAPTER EIGHT. THE FATHER I DID NOT KNOW

[ QUIRK ] Reliable Witness

Interlude. I AM THE AUTHOR OF THIS NOVEL

CHAPTER NINE. HOW I LEARNED TO READ

[ QUIRK ] Splayed Poem: The Road

[ QUIRK ] Eidolons

CHAPTER TEN. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CHAPTER ELEVEN. LETTERS IN ENGLISH

[ QUIRK ] Why Write?

CHAPTER TWELVE. LANGUAGE: A LOVE STORY. An Outtake from an Abandoned Novel

[ QUIRK ] Intestinal Fortitude

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTICS

EPILOGUE. COMPANIONS IN THE HOUSE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About the Author

ALSO BY AMY TAN

About the Publisher

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For Daniel Halpern,

suddenly and finally,

.....

CHAPTER SEVEN – The Darkest Moment of My Life

Quirk – Nipping Dog

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