Kingston, Maxine Hong

A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.

Maxine Hong Kingston explains how she struggled to rebuild her life after all her earthly possessions burned in a house fire and how she realized her own loss helped her realize what it would be like to fight in a war, leading her to reach out to veterans of war and share her views as a lover a peace.