num_pages: 209
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Woman Warrior
titlecomplete: The Woman Warrior
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, School, Womens, Literature, Classics, Feminism, China, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 30769
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage Books USA