Where the past begins: a writer's memoir

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Tan, Amy
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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"--

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Language arts
Literature
Novelists, American
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Tan, Amy

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Halpern Jelin, Daniel Matías,narrator
ISBN:
9780062319296
9780062688194
9780062694751
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Lexile measure:
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