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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.
In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most…
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1 author picked Where the Past Begins as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Her book inspired me to write my own memoir about my experiences as a local child living the life of an expat in the British colonial territory of Singapore in the 1960s.
This is her autobiographical memoir of her life and childhood. I found her story captured in a sophisticated writing style. It covers all the elements of how she kickstarted her career as a writer and the catalysts behind the stories of all her books.
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