He spent the rest of the night looking for the plot of our ever-branching lives. A job can't be the plot of life, and not a soapy love-marriage-divorce--and hell no, not Viet Nam. (p288)

— Maxine Hong Kingston Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

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