Hawai I One Summer

Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.

In this collection of 11 pieces, Maxine Hong Kingston does not attempt to capture Hawaii but "instead and incidentally" to describe her "piece by piece, and hope that the sum praises her." The essays provide a sampling of Kingston's signature.

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