The Fifth Book of Peace

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the National Book Award-winning author of China Men and The Woman Warrior comes a work weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal. “A trenchant opus about surviving the fires of life. . .a wonderful, mulitlayered work. Marvelous.” --San Francisco Chronicle The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father’s funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the