Peacework, October 1st, 2003
From The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston The Fifth Book of Peace (2003) begins with Maxine Hong Kingston's description of the 1991 fire that destroyed her house, and with it the only manuscript of a nearlycompleted novel. The novel was to be called The Fourth Book of Peace. In the after-math of the fire, Kingston came to believe that she must recreate the lost book not in the traditional writer's solitude, butin community. In the last section of the book, "Earth, "from which this selection is taken, she recounts her shared journey with a constantly changing group of veterans in a s...
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