The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales.
The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the 1970s.[1]
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The Question and Answer section for The Woman Warrior is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The narrator constantly dearches for the sign of a bird.
In the chapter, White Tigers, the narrator tells a story about the woman who invented white crane boxing. Legend says that the woman was a fighter, trained by “an order of fighting monks.” One morning, she tried to use her fighting pole to move a...
In the novel, Brave Orchid is determined to make her children brave eaters. In order to do this, she would keep serving them the same piece of food meal after meal until they ate it.
