{"product_id":"where-the-past-begins-memory-and-imagination-9780007585571b","title":"Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrom \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWhere the Past Begins\u003c\/span\u003e, bestselling author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Joy Luck Club \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Valley of Amazement\u003c\/span\u003e Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with candour and characteristic humour, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWhere the Past Begins\u003c\/span\u003e takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth.","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822422495312,"sku":"9780007585571B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780007585571-l.jpg?v=1785887876","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/where-the-past-begins-memory-and-imagination-9780007585571b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}