This author is celebrated for works that often reflect on her cultural heritage, blending fiction with non-fiction. Her writing delves into the complexities of Asian-American identity, drawing on autobiography and folklore to craft rich, multi-layered narratives. Her literary voice is distinctive, embodying strong female characters and boldly addressing themes of memory, history, and belonging. Her legacy lies in her ability to transform personal experience into timeless stories that resonate with something profoundly human.
Exploring the profound impact of conflict, this collection features a blend of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry from veterans of five different wars. Each piece offers unique perspectives and redemptive storytelling, highlighting the experiences and emotional journeys of those directly affected by war. The anthology serves as a powerful testament to resilience and the quest for peace amidst the chaos of battle.
The collection offers a bold retelling of America's national narrative through the lens of a Chinese immigrant's daughter. It intertwines personal experiences with broader historical themes, providing a unique perspective on identity, culture, and the immigrant experience in America. This groundbreaking work combines three books into one volume, showcasing the author's insights and storytelling prowess as she explores the complexities of her heritage and its impact on her understanding of the American story.
Exploring the Chinese immigrant experience in America, this volume combines two classic works by Maxine Hong Kingston. Through a blend of myth and personal history, Kingston delves into her family's past and cultural narratives, creating powerful and insightful reflections on identity and belonging. The stories reveal the struggles and resilience of immigrants, offering a profound understanding of their journeys and experiences in a new land.
In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, 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 to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
Set against the backdrop of historical conflict in China, the narrative explores the significance of the lost Books of Peace, which were deemed too dangerous to exist. Maxine Hong Kingston's Fourth Book of Peace emerges from personal tragedy, particularly the loss of her father during the 1991 Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire. This work intricately blends fiction and memoir, offering a profound reflection on themes of war, peace, destruction, and the possibility of renewal, ultimately aiming to heal and inspire.
