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I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE, by Maxine Hong Kingston

May 19, 2011

REINVENTING THE MEMOIR as poem, Maxine Hong Kingston invites us into her luminous and introspective life.

Grade: A MINUS

I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE
Knopf
2011

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CHARLIE CHAN: THE UNTOLD STORY… by Yunte Huang

March 17, 2011

CHARLIE CHAN LIVES in this utterly absorbing look at the real Hawai’i cop who inspired the fictional detective.

Grade: A MINUS

CHARLIE CHAN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HONORABLE DETECTIVE AND HIS RENDEZVOUS WITH AMERICAN HISTORY
W. W. Norton & Company
2010

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