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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Art
Art, American
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Authorship
Autobiographies
Autobiography
Biographies
Biography
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Electronic books
Language arts
Literature
Novelists, American
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Tan, Amy
Women artists

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Halpern Jelin, Daniel Matías,narrator
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9780062319302
9780062688194
9780062694751
9780062694768
Lexile measure:
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