Why don’t you tell me what’s going to happen once we get to Mrs. Henderson’s, huh?” Steve says, still in that low, heated voice. “You gonna shut me out? You’re too cool to be seen with me, is that it?” Throughout the development process for The Maxine One, our top priority was ensuring the safety and well-being of your little chonk. As a spoken word performer, Maxine's work has been delivered on stages and airways, and in festivals across the country, including at the Melbourne Writers Festival (2008, 2010, 2013), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2012), the Arts Centre (2009) and the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival (2013). Tracy Robinson, "The Intersections of Gender, Class, Race, and Culture: On Seeing Clients Whole," in Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Vol. 21, no. 1, January, 1993, pp. 50-58.

But Maxine's Baby focuses on how even the negative aspects of Perry's biography helped make him the man he is today. Cheung, King-Kok. Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. In her chapter on Kingston, Cheung notes the way in which historical and parental silence provokes the author to use her imagination to create possible versions of stories that her taciturn parents refuse to convey.We suggest limiting the amount of time that your chonk is riding in The Maxine One to no longer than 45-60 minutes before taking a break.

I have to begin by saying that in my view, this is her best book to date, I was totally caught up with the characters, the intricate and clever plot and the fascinating way that the author weaves three totally different eras together so seamlessly. I stayed up very late one night to finish this, and then couldn't sleep for ages as I just couldn't stop thinking about it. Billy makes a disparaging noise. Sinking to his knees, curling his spine into the shape of a clenched fist; seeking the shade of the cars, retreating in fear of the light, the sound. He doesn’t want to hurt Steve, but he will if Steve forces him to. He’ll have to. It’s the only way he can get through this. Paul Mandelbaum, "Rising from the Ashes: A Profile of Maxine Hong Kingston," in Poets and Writers, Vol. 26, no. 3, May/June, 1998, pp. 46-53. Schueller commends Kingston for her unique form of autobiography and for questioning simple definitions of female and ethnic identities. Meanwhile, in Belle Epoque Paris in 1899, Lucienne Docquer's two daughters are believed to have perished in a terrible fire. Lucienne is convinced they have been kidnapped instead but her entreaties to her husband and the police are dismissed. Lucienne may be rich and privileged but for all the exciting societal changes taking place during this gilded age, she is still a woman and subsequently has very little actual autonomy. It's perhaps not surprising, therefore, that she should seek the truth through other means. Her invitation into the spiritualist community evokes the movement during that era perfectly and I loved the cameo by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. What follows would surely tempt the deductive powers of his famed detective; the devastating revelations which come to light stunned me and yet the clues are hidden in plain sight.

Ling, Amy. Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry. New York: Pergamon, 1990. Ling locates Kingston’s work within a historical tradition of Chinese American writers. She highlights Kingston’s need for “writing wrongs” by “writing about the wrongs.”