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The Woman Warrior

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Written by Maxine Hong KingstonAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: April 23, 1989
  • Price: $13.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-72188-8 (0-679-72188-6)
about this book

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-fiction

“A book of fierce clarity and originality” (Newsweek), Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiography tells of her early life in California and the cultural confusion she experienced as the daughter of Chinese immigrants.

“A remarkable book. . . . As an account of growing up female and Chinese-American in California, in a laundry of course, it is an anti-nostalgic; it burns the fat right out of the mind. As a dream—of the ’female avenger’—it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword.” —The New York Times