You know you’ve made it as an author when you’re asked to make a cameo appearance on 'The Simpsons'! Amy Tan memorably lectures Lisa Simpson for apparently misunderstanding her books. ‘That was fun,’ says the author of the renowned bestseller, ‘The Joy Luck Club’, in an interview about her latest memoir, ‘Where The Past Begins’. Photo: TV still
Where The Past Begins (Ecco Press) is the memoir that Amy Tan never planned on writing. Beginning as a nonfiction book about her writing process, the author of the renowned The Joy Luck Club (1993) dug into early journals and ended up sending her editor everything from essays to personal reflections about her troubled childhood with an unstable mother. The result is a memoir that is so intimate and raw that Tan confesses to being terrified by its publication.
Check out the full interview here where Tan shares how the unplanned memoir came about and why she avoids the spotlight – as well as what she did during her appearance on an episode of The Simpsons!
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