bookedinsaigon 's review for:

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

2.0

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I remember... not really liking... this book back when I read it for school. It seemed to represent everything I dislike about Asian American fiction--namely, that a Chinese American memoir *had* to include overblown details about Chinese legend in order to make it "authentically Chinese." Uh, no, kung fu girls evil Mongol warriors does not a Chinese person's story make. And you wonder why Asian American writing is still so undeveloped when this book is held up as the paragon of Chinese American memoir writing.