Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination BOTY_2025 and steer a novice watchman

and steer a novice watchman straight—an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes

As he writes: “Aging is a disease

Every chapter is packed with history

Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries

charming and funny stories of family life built around the agricultural year

Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination BOTY_2025 and steer a novice watchmanFrom New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters "Unintended Memoir." In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid impressions of her upbringing, Tan investigates the truths