Hawai'i One Summer
- ISBN-10
- 162681404X
- ISBN-13
- 9781626814042
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 72
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-10
- Publisher
- Diversion Books
- Author
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Description
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.
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