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100 1  Tan, Amy,|eauthor. 
245 10 Where the past begins :|ba writer's memoir /|cAmy Tan. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bEcco,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    x, 357 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  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. 
520    "From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir 
       on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic 
       relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
520    "In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy 
       Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her 
       most intimate, 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 IQ 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. Suffused with candor and characteristic humor, 
       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."--Jacket. 
600 10 Tan, Amy. 
650  0 Novelists, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 
650  4 Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.|2bisacsh 
650  7 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative 
       Writing.|2bisacsh 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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