The Fifth Book of Peace
Date of Review:
Oct.06.2003
Source:
The New Yorker
… Here she re-creates [a] lost fictional narrative and sets it alongside an account of her life after the [1991 Oakland fire] fire, so that the Vietnam-era doings of her antic hero, … who moves to Hawaii to evade the draft, are juxtaposed with her own experience teaching writing workshops for veterans of Vietnam.
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About Maxine
Maxine Hong Kingston was born on October 27th, 1940, in Stockton, California. She was the first of six American-born children; her parents, Tom and Ying Lan Hong, had had two children in China before they came to America. Her mother trained as a midwife in To...
Causes Maxine Kingston Supports
Amnesty International