209 pages
English language
Published Aug. 7, 1989 by Vintage Books.
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.
Definitely a worthwhile read. This book is a series of stories written as memoirs with a couple fantasy stories as well. This book is focused on family and immigration, but it is filled with commentary on cultural identity, gender, relationships, and honor.
Absolute trudge. Read it for class, felt like it was written for reading in class. Neither particularly moving prose nor engaging story.
