Editing Amy Tan (section)

===Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir===
4th Estate published Tan's memoir, in October 2017. The book cover was released earlier in April.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Biedenharn |first=Isabella |date=2017-04-25 |title=Amy Tan Pokes Fun at Her New Book Cover |url=https://ew.com/books/2017/04/25/amy-tan-where-past-begins-cover/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> In the book, using family photographs and journal entries, she writes about the relationship with her mother, the death of her father and brother, stories of her half-sisters and grandmother in China, her diagnosis of [[chronic Lyme disease]], and life as a writer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roy |first=Nilanjana |date=2018-01-19 |title=Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan — dark materials |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7467e8da-fad6-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167 |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=www.ft.com}}</ref> In comparison to her fiction writing, Tan said a memoir is "unvarnished.”  While writing a memoir, her recollection and sequence of events might not be orderly for the reader. They emerge according to their importance and how they shaped her.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/22/amy-tan-writing-exhilarating-wish-hadnt-been-published-memoir-joy-luck-club|title=Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir|newspaper=The Guardian |date=2017-10-17|language=en|last1=O'Kelly |first1=Lisa }}</ref><ref name="whelan">{{cite news |last1=Whelan |first1=David |title=Lyme Inc. |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0312/096.html |work=Forbes |date=23 Feb 2007 |language=en}}</ref>