Where the Past Begins- Memory & Imagination Class_INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY But what if you were

But what if you were plummeting to your death in a plane with no engine and you needed to know what size parachute to make from your cabinmate's sari in order to jump and survive

to form a colony on Mars

she gets help from an unexpected quarter

It's not right that the experience should be so demotivating and dehumanizing

informative and easily-digestible guide

Where the Past Begins- Memory & Imagination Class_INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY But what if you wereBy delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self doubt in her journals and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gathers together evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels.