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 | | Maxine and her husband, Earll Kingston, a fellow English major she had met at UC Berkeley, had gone on vacation to the sleepy neighbor island of Lanai which had only one hotel, a 12-room hotel at that. |
 | | How a Stockton-born daughter of Chinese immigrants in the 20th century became a celebrated writer whose first book put her in the category with such historic and titanic literary and philosophical giants as Homer and Plato is not such a far-fetched notion as one might first think. |
 | | To this day, it is the book that Maxine Hong Kingston is most defined by
even though she's gone on to write other books, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey and Hawaii One Summer. |
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