Where the past begins : a writer's memoir /
"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"--
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| Language: | English |
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Table of 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.