The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Maxine Hong Kingston blends memoir and Chinese folklore to tell of growing up Chinese American in California, shaped by her mother's stories of ghosts, aunts and the legendary woman warrior Fa Mu Lan.

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• Barack Obama: “Or “The Woman Warrior,” by Maxine [Hong Kingston]. Part of what was interesting was me pulling back books that I thought were really powerful”