Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her memoir The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

This is a delightful book ... tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive -- Victoria Radin New Society A strange, enchanting book ... As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable Guardian As a dream - of the "female avenger" - it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword ... reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God -- John Leonard New York Times A book of fierce clarity and originality Newsweek It [has] crossed cultural boundaries and fused literary genres in startlingly original ways Guardian