Hawai'i One Summer

✍ Scribed by Kingston, Maxine Hong

• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Year: 1998;2014
• Tongue: English
• Edition: First Diversion books edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Our first house -- My high school reunion -- War -- Dishwashing -- Chinaman's Hat -- A city person encountering nature -- Useful education -- Talk story: a writers' conference -- Strange sightings -- Lew Welch: an appreciation -- A sea worry.;From the National Book Award-winning author of classics like THE WOMAN WARRIOR comes a stirring collection of essays, celebrating memory, history, and island tradition. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, originally gathered in a limited, hand-printed edition, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai'i "piece by piece, and hope that the sum praises her." The essays provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston's signature: her exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Our first house --
My high school reunion --
War --
Dishwashing --
Chinaman's Hat --
A city person encountering nature --
Useful education --
Talk story: a writers' conference --
Strange sightings --
Lew Welch: an appreciation --
A sea worry.

✦ Subjects

Authors, American;Authors, American--20th century;Authors, American--Homes and haunts;Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Hawaii;Chinese Americans;Chinese Americans--Hawaii;Civilization;Homes;Intellectual life;LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese;Manners and customs;Electronic books;Biographies;Biography;Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Homes and haunts -- Hawaii;Kingston, Maxine Hong;Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Hawaii;Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography;Hawaii -- Intellectual