false 30852 10 <b>The Woman Warrior</b> 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. 1759 book 23 4 1976 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts total:3780|5:987|4:1368|3:996|2:314|1:115| 3780 14138 4958 317 5 3 false false Wed Jul 02 17:02:08 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 17:02:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 19:43:01 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 14:51:23 -0800 2007 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts was all about the narrator's struggle to find her her identity. Being a Chinese-American, the author is trying to figure out who she is and what made her that person. What confused me about the book was that the title calls it a memoir, bu...more...]]> 0 2 false false Tue Dec 11 05:47:52 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 05:47:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Feb 26 04:11:09 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 04:15:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 00:02:29 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 00:13:03 -0800 2007
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the themes are obvious: mother/daughter relations are difficult. merging cultures is difficult. t...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 15 19:48:28 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 19:53:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 08:45:08 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 06:55:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 09:10:10 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:25:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:27:36 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 13:09:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 20 00:04:05 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 00:04:52 -0700 2009 I've finally finished Maxine Hong Kingston's Warrior Woman: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. The "ghosts" refer to her Chinese mother's habit of calling everything that isn't explainable, i.e. not Chinese, a ghost. There are immigration ghosts, ghost ghosts, American ghosts, neighb...more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Apr 13 16:16:30 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 16:27:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 25 15:59:25 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 12 15:01:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jun 23 17:27:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:25:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 03 19:19:02 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 19:23:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Mon Jun 15 18:30:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 18:38:42 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Apr 10 15:24:41 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 15:34:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 02 10:29:42 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 10:29:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 05:15:34 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 05:18:17 -0700 2009
Memoirs
"Dizzying, elemental a poem turned into a sword." - The New York Times

Before there was Amy Tan, there was Maxine Hong Kingston. Her masterpiece is a memoir of growing up Chinese American in California. Kingston relate...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 09 13:34:18 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 14:45:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 10:57:59 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 12:20:36 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=30852