Summary: Amy Tan, the bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Valley of Amazement,' explores her life as a writer, her childhood, and the relationship between fiction and emotional memory in her new memoir, 'Where the Past Begins.' In conversation with Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University and author of 'You Just Don't Understand: The Argument Culture.' This program was presented in partnership with Politics & Prose and the Alan Cheuse International Writer's Center on October 18, 2017.
