In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form--an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities--immigrant, female, Chinese, American.

As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother's tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston's sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family's past and her own present.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: 04/23/1989
ISBN: 9780679721888
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Booklist 11/01/1992 pg. 503
Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1301
Newsweek 03/10/2008 pg. 16
Newsweek 04/28/2008 pg. 14

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 70324 / Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11