Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir audiobook runs 14.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Daniel Halpern and Amy Tan (about 9.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 14.5 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Amy Tan
Amy Tan narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 99 hours in all.
About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
288 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2017 recording read by Amy Tan runs about the same length (14.5 hours).
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir is an audiobook by Amy Tan: a 14.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Daniel Halpern and Amy Tan, released October 17, 2017, on the Essays & Anthologies and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Daniel Halpern, Amy Tan
- Released
- October 17, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9780062694751
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir audiobook?
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir runs 14.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.7 hours.
Is the Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir?
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir is narrated by Daniel Halpern and Amy Tan.
Is Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.7 hours, saving 4.8 hours.