Taleah G. (swingsistert) reviewed The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts on + 78 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 12
A clear and vivid memoir that blurs the line between story and real life. Kingston is a tremendous writer - this is a must-read!
A note of some importance: The Woman Warrior is the most-taught book in university world literature classes.
A note of some importance: The Woman Warrior is the most-taught book in university world literature classes.
Helpful Score: 10
This is an absolutely beautiful book. I was made to read it in a Women's Lit class, but loved it. My Yahoo Mail signature is a quote from this book:
"Perhaps women where once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound"
"Perhaps women where once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound"
Toby D. (bookswapper) reviewed The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts on + 188 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 9
Read this book in college - liked it so much I also got Trickster Monkey which is about the men in the family coming to America. This book is the woman's/girl's point of view - half American and half Chinese. Lot of insights on Chinese social and family structures, engrossing story - autobiographical for the author but written as fiction because it is blended with fairy tales and ghost stories.
Kimberly C. reviewed The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts on + 16 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
well-written, interesting story of what it meant to be a first generation American in California in the early part of last century. good read!
Helpful Score: 3
An amazing autobiography of a Chinese woman growing up in California. Much of the story is how about finding a balance between her immigrant parents' values and her own, very different reality as a Chinese-American woman. I've read my copy several times.