Hawai'i One Summer

Download or read book Hawai'i One Summer written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.