From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, meditations on her life as a writer, art, discovery, and the origins of her creative impulse. In Where the Past Begins, author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get older.