The Woman Warrior

by Maxine Hong Kingston

First published 1976

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories."

Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors - tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women.

Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother's stories with stories of her own, engaging her family's past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.

Source: Open Library

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Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
First published: 1976
Publisher: Tandem Library
Language: ENG
ISBN-13: 9780808589761