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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
	Author: Maxine Hong Kingston Publisher: Vintage Category: Book List Price: ~~$13.95~~ Buy Used: $0.01 You Save: $13.94 (100%) New (76) Used (402) Collectible (14) from $0.01 Rating: 170 reviews Sales Rank: 10571 Media: Paperback Pages: 224 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 ISBN: 0679721886 Dewey Decimal Number: 979.4053092 EAN: 9780679721888 ASIN: 0679721886 Publication Date: April 23, 1989 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Our feedback rating says it all: Five star service and fast delivery! We've shipped four million items to happy customers, and have one MILLION unique items ready to ship today!


Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com Review The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. Product Description A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.