Ebook: I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Author: Kingston Maxine Hong
- Tags: Authors American, Authors American--20th century, Chinese American authors, Chinese American women, Biography, Electronic books, Biographies, Downloadable 3M ebooks, Kingston Maxine Hong, Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography, Chinese American authors -- Biography, Chinese American women -- Biography
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Language: English
- epub
In her singular voice--humble, elegiac, practical--Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as 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 ("can't divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love right") to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreau's notion of a "broad margin," hoping to expand her vista: "I'm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichway-- / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day."
On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of...