- American Authors, Asian Americans, Biography, Childhood and youth
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."
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 209
- Publisher
- Huang Guan Za Zhi She, Vintage Books, Knopf : distributed by Random House
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- German, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780394588834
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