SIGNED FIRST EDITION - The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

First Edition, hardcover signed copy of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and is Kingston’s disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The book is complex and captivating, a constant toggling between the mundane grit of the family’s laundry business and epic, surreal dreamscapes. “The Woman Warrior” changed American culture and became the definitive telling of the Asian immigrant experience.The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories.

• Name : Maxine Hong Kingston