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In her singular voice'humble, elegiac, practical'Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage ("can't divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love right") to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreau's notion of a "broad margin," hoping to expand her vista: "I'm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichway' / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day." On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China, where he has never been'a trip that becomes a beautiful meditation on the country then and now, on a culture where ric

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Author

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307454591

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14