TRIPMASTER MONKEY His Fake Book by...

TRIPMASTER MONKEY His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston (Alfred A. Knopf: $19.95; 339 pp.)

“Kingston’s first novel is fantastic, an eminent brush with a wild romancer. The Monkey King is the paramount metaphor in these stories; the simian moves are comic transformations.”

--Gerald Vizenor

FIRST FATHER, FIRST DAUGHTER A Memoir by Maureen Reagan (Little, Brown: $19.95; 415 pp.) “A tale of perseverance. If personal growth is one of the fairest measures of people, this book convinced me that Maureen Reagan deserves more credit than she often gets.”--Keith Love