In her memoir, Amy Tan reveals the ways our memories & personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her upbringing, Tan investigates the truths and inspirations behind her writing while illuminating how we all explore, confront, and process complex memories, especially half-forgotten ones from childhood.
“The best new memoir I’ve read in a decade is Amy Tan’s breath-taking high-wire act of memory and imagination... [a] classic of the form... A must-read for the ages.” —Mary Karr