# I Love a Broad Margin To My Life

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- Authors: [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.bookquiver.com/maxine-hong-kingston)
- Publisher: Harvill Secker
- ISBN: 978-18-4655-246-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2011-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Maxine Hong Kingston, author of such seminal works as The Woman Warrior and China M en, is one of the most important American writers of her generation. In this remarkable memoir, she writes from the point of view of being sixty-five, looking back on a rich and complex life of literature and political activism, always against the background of what it is like to have a mixed Chinese-American identity. Passages of autobiography, in which she describes such events in her life as being imprisoned with Alice Walker for demonstrating against the Iraq war, meld with a ficitonal journey in which she sends her avatar Wittman Ah Sing on a trip to modern China. She also evokes her own poignant journey, without a guide, back to the Chinese villages her father and mother left in order to come to America.