Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir. Amy Tan

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

      First published in the United States by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, in 2017

      Copyright © 2017 by Amy Tan

      Cover illustration by Michelle Thompson. Images by kind permission of the author.

      ‘One of the Butterflies’ by W. S. Merwin taken from The Shadow of Sirius (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) and reproduced by permission of Bloodaxe Books.

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      ‘The Breaker of Combs’ was first published in Zyzzyva, October 2016.

      ‘The Unfurling of Leaves’ was first published in Allure magazine, November 2005, titled as ‘A Natural Woman.’

      Amy Tan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007585571

      Ebook Edition © November 2018 ISBN: 9780007585564

      Version: 2018-09-25

       Dedication

      For Daniel Halpern,

       suddenly and finally,

       our book.

       Slipstream

      [From the journal]

       2012

       You think you are oceans apart when it is really only a slipstream that you fell into by accident or inattention.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

      Introduction – Where the Past Begins

      PROLOGUE – The Breaker of Combs

       I. IMAGINATION

      CHAPTER ONE – A Leaky Imagination

CHAPTER TWO – Music as Muse

Quirk – Souvenir from a Dream

CHAPTER THREE – Hidden Genius

       Interlude – Reorientation: Homer, Alaska

       II. MEMORY IN EMOTION

       CHAPTER FOUR – Genuine Emotions

       CHAPTER FIVE – The Feeling of What It Felt Like When It Happened

       Quirk – A Mere Mortal at Age Twenty-Five

       Quirk – A Mere Mortal at Age Twenty-Six

       Quirk – How to Change Fate: Step 1

       III. RETRIEVING THE PAST

       Interlude – The Unfurling of Leaves

       Interlude – The Auntie of the Woman Who Lost Her Mind

      CHAPTER SIX – Unstoppable

       Quirk – Time and Distance: Age Twenty-Four

       Quirk – Time and Distance: Age Fifty

       Quirk – Time and Distance: Age Sixty

       IV. UNKNOWN ENDINGS

      CHAPTER SEVEN – The Darkest Moment of My Life

       Quirk – Nipping Dog

       CHAPTER EIGHT – The Father I Did Not Know

       Quirk – Reliable Witness

       V. READING AND WRITING

       Interlude – I Am the Author of This Novel

       CHAPTER NINE – How I Learned to Read

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