The Woman Warrior Author:Maxine Hong Kingston A remarkable book...As an account of growing up female and Chinese-American in California, in a laundry of course, it is anti-nostalgic; it burns the fat right out if the mind. As a dream -of the 'female avenger'- it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword." — -The New York Times — "Intense, fierce, and disturbing...a strange, sometimes... more » savagely terrifying and, ink the literal sense, wonderful story."
- The Washington Post
" A book of, fierce clarity and originality." -Newsweek
"Triumphant...astonishingly accomplished." -Time
The Woman Warrior was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best work of non-fiction in 1976.« less