{"product_id":"where-the-past-begins-memory-and-imagination","title":"Where the Past Begins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWhere the Past Begins\u003c\/em\u003e, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Valley of Amazement\u003c\/em\u003e Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eBy delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gathers together evidence of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eTan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eWritten with candour and characteristic humour, \u003cem\u003eWhere the Past Begins\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32095913017427,"sku":"9780007585571","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780007585571.jpg?v=1765721741","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/where-the-past-begins-memory-and-imagination","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}