After a stop in the Middle East, we are heading over to China, as we'll be discussing our next book "The Woman Warrior; Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts" by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Here's a book summary:
The
Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of
growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong
Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's
mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless,
tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way
upward.
The author's America is a
landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the
social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like
the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her
family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance
of the pain.
We will be meeting on Sunday June 3rd at 2pm.
Stay posted for next book to read in July!
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