hagbard_celine 's review for:

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

4.0

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It's weird that I made it through howevermany years of formal education without being assigned (and subsequently neglecting) this book. It has a reputation as something people read in a sophomore English class. Also, weirdly, in my memories of school reading, I recall a long list of Japanese and Japanese-America narratives, but nothing Chinese or Chinese-American. I wonder if that's a peculiarity of the times and places of my schooling, or something larger about America.

Anyway, wonderful language, search for identity, etc.