The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston [in AsianWeek]
26 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Memoir, Repost
Hong Kingston’s much awaited new book begins with the calamitous fires in the Oakland-Berkeley hills of October 1991 that strike as she is driving home from her father’s funeral –...
Kingston’s first novel about the often comic mishaps and adventures of Wittman Ah Sing, who is one year out of Berkeley, a slacker before his time. Set in the 1960s, Wittman’s dream is to...
A history made up of myth and memory of generations of Chinese American men: from the grandfather who worked on the transcontinental railroad to a father who ran a laundry and danced like Fred...
A young girl grows up in the San Francisco Bay Area divided amidst the stories and myths of her parents’ faraway past in China and her own experiences as an immigrant’s daughter coming of...