Date of Review:

10/06/2003

Published Work:

Reviewer:

Source:

The New Yorker

Review Excerpt:

… Here she re-creates [a] lost fictional narrative and sets it alongside an account of her life after the [1991 Oakland fire] fire, so that the Vietnam-era doings of her antic hero, … who moves to Hawaii to evade the draft, are juxtaposed with her own experience teaching writing workshops for veterans of Vietnam.

Link to Full Review:

The Fifth Book of Peace