Biography & Autobiography.
Sociology.
Women's Studies.
Nonfiction.
HTML: NATIONAL BESTSELLER �?� An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities�??immigrant, female, Chinese, American. �?� NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
�??A classic, for a reason.�?� �??Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter
As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother�??s �??talk stories.�?� The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother�??s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston�??s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her fam… (more) |
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