The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Kingston, Maxine Hong

ISBN 10: 0780736842 ISBN 13: 9780780736849

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1989

Synopsis

Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.

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Review:

This is a delightful book . . . tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive (Victoria Radin New Society)

A strange, enchanting book . . . As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable (Guardian)

As a dream - of the "female avenger" - it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword . . . reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God (John Leonard New York Times)

A book of fierce clarity and originality (Newsweek)

It [has] crossed cultural boundaries and fused literary genres in startlingly original ways (Guardian)

Book Description:

A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0780736842
• ISBN 13: 9780780736849
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 209