{"product_id":"i-love-a-broad-margin-to-my-life-isbn-9780307454591","title":"I Love a Broad Margin to My Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChina Men\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living.”\u003ci\u003e —Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A gentle, meandering memoir, organized as a long poem. . . . Cinematic and sensual.\u003ci\u003e” —San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A brilliantly penned memoir written in a fluid, narrative poetry genre. . . . Gritty…and energetic all in one breath.” —San Francisco Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rich. . . . Only a few older writers—poets or not—can manage this balance of self-amusement and genuine longing. It’s an effect fully equal to the shaded tones of Kingston’s best writing.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living.” —\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A gentle, meandering memoir, organized as a long poem. . . . Cinematic and sensual.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delights as an unconventional, intimate and intensely personal life story. . . . Forcing a slower, calmer contemplation of Hong Kingston’s words. . . . Moving. . . . Whether she’s recalling the birth of her son or the time she was arrested for protesting the Iraq war, Kingston’s memories are pungent and vivid.” —\u003ci\u003ePost and Courier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“She leads the reader on a tour of her native China, her rich language often matching the lushness of the landscape itself. . . . Effortlessly transitions from personal experience to the worlds of her characters. . . . As much an examination of the nature of time and aging as it is an exploration of cultural identity and origin, \u003ci\u003eI Love a Broad Margin to my Life\u003c\/i\u003e contains both moments of dark alienation and buoyant transcendence.” —\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Blurring the lines among poetry, fiction, and memoir. . . . A meditation on form and formlessness, on meaning and identity, and how the most essential truths often exist outside the boundaries, in something of an ur-state.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“She seems at peace with the necessary sacrifices and negotiations she’s made as a writer, wife and mother. Yet she’s also acutely aware of her mortality and determined to carve out the free time to which she feels entitled at last. . . . Written in a dreamlike, impressionistic style. . . . Takes on a kind of mythical quality.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Engaging. . . . Startling.” —Heller McAlpin, NPR\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A sprawling, globe-hopping long poem. . . . Kingston is thinking deeply about the act of writing itself. . . . I found myself compelled by Kingston’s efforts to capture the disjointed landscape wrought by globalization. . . . Touching. . . . Offers its readers a memorable set of images, narratives, and questions that continue to push against the foundations of memoir, just as her earlier work, The Woman Warrior, did four decades earlier.” —\u003ci\u003eHyphen Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A brilliantly penned memoir. . . . She shares cultural experiences with a primal pentameter that may equal or surpass anything her readers have ever experienced.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMaxine Hong Kingston\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Book of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle award, the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award. For many years a Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at UC Berkeley, she lives in Oakland, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302880432357,"sku":"NP9780307454591","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307454591.jpg?v=1767729666","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-love-a-broad-margin-to-my-life-isbn-9780307454591","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}