National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A classic for a reason Celeste Ng via With this bestselling book the awardwinning author created an entirely new forman 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 identitiesimmigrant female Chinese American. As a girl Kingston lives in two confounding worlds the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mothers talk stories. The fierce and wily women warriors of her mothers tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingstons 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 familys past and her own present. show more