{"product_id":"i-love-a-broad-margin-to-my-life","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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living.\"\u003ci\u003e --Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A gentle, meandering memoir, organized as a long poem. . . . Cinematic and sensual.\u003ci\u003e\" --San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41875164201035,"sku":"9780307454591","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_6325d289-208e-45cd-bcd4-e503ab078ffb.jpg?v=1762333748","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/i-love-a-broad-margin-to-my-life","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}