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Amy  Tan

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Over the eight years it took to write The Valley of Amazement, there were major  distractions:  Multiple visits to a Dong minority village in the most remote province in China to write a story for National Geographic. Writing libretto for the opera The Bonesetter's Daughter.  Building an all-accessible house.  And there was a major detour when I discovered a photograph, which then turned the novel upside down and led me to start over.  




















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 Nov  2013  (not in order):


Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Portand, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St Louis, and Washington DC. 


 



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Buzz Books 2013 selected Valley of Amazement as one of its buzz books.  That means you can read part of the first chapter in this free eBook.  There are also excerpts from other novels coming out this Fall and Winter.  To find out more about Buzz Books, go here. 

​The VAlley of Amazement

will be published Nov 5, 2013

by Ecco Books/HarperCollins






People often ask me about creativity.  I think it's an unanswerable question.  But I was compelled to answer it when I was invited to give a talk at TED and they set the topic.  I actually dislike this talk. It's the first draft of something that could have been much better. But a lot of people have told me they enjoyed it.  The people at TED said it's played to over a million viewers on its various channels.  Too late to take it back.









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