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Maxine Hong Kingston was born in California in 1940, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She studied engineering at Berkeley before switching to English literature. After her marriage to actor Earll Kingston, she moved to Hawai'i where she worked as a teacher and continued to write her highly acclaimed books. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including, in 2008, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
This will delight Hong Kingston's admirers. It may test the uninitiated, but the author's verbal and linguistic mastery makes handsome amends * Times Literary Supplement * A splendid raconteur, who shares with us the myths and stories that emerge from the lode of a culture's deepest realities * Chicago Tribune * A meditation on form and formlessness, on meaning and identity, and [on] how the most essential truths often exist outside the boundaries * Los Angeles Times *
