I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 14, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A memoir in verse moves through memory, marriage, activism, and reflections on China then and now.
- Themes
- Aging and life reflection, Peace activism, China then and now
- Pacing
- Reflective
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A poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age from the award-winning author of The Woman Warrior and China Men. “[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living.” —Boston Globe “A gentle, meandering memoir, organized as a long poem. . . .
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Cinematic and sensual.” —San Francisco Chronicle As Maxine Hong Kingston reflects on 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.
A Life in Verse
A memoir in verse moves through memory, marriage, activism, and reflections on China then and now.
Come here for
- A writer’s life seen through present-day moments and remembered journeys
- The return of beloved characters from Kingston’s earlier work
Expect
- A gentle, meandering shape rather than a straight chronology
- Reflections on age, purpose, and the art of living
Where it sits
| Asian American Poetry | 52% |
|---|---|
| Asian & Asian American Lives | 51% |
| Writers' Lives | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- Women's Lives
- Asian American Poetry
- Authors
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- February 14, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Aging and life reflection · Peace activism · China then and now
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives