riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (08/31/83)
The best book that I've read in the past month was "China Men" by
Maxine Hong Kingston, the author of "The Woman Warrior". Briefly, the
book was an account of the Chinese-American experience told via the
stories of the men in the author's family. Kingston showed an ability
to write in the wide range of styles needed to go smoothly from the lives
of her great-grandparents in China to the experiences of her younger
brother who served in Viet Nam. Rather than write this book as a long
potboiler of a novel, like so many ethnic melodramas written in recent
years, she did it as a collection of short, polished pieces, each unlike
the rest and able to stand alone. I was enthralled for the length of
the book.
-- Prentiss Riddle
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