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In her single voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to think about aging as she becomes sixty five. Kingston’s swift, efficiently moving passage outlines experience immediately organic within this refreshing method of the-art of memoir, as she groups from give past and back, from lunchtime with a writer friend for the memorial of the Vietnam veteran, from her long relationship (“can’t breakup till we have it right. / Love, that's. Get adore right”) to her charge in a peace march in Washington, where she and her "siblings" protested the Iraq conflict within the George Watts.