![]() '" It goes on to tell the story of a pregnant, adulterous woman who is terrorized by her village, and it ends with her drowning in a well. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts begins with the familiar words: "'You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you. ![]() What was this? A novel, a collection, a memoir? I'd never encountered a book that made up so many of its own rules before. One day, when I was in 10th grade, I was combing the shelves of a little local bookstore at the mall and stumbled across a pretty, slender book called The Woman Warrior. ![]() How could someone like me - a girl from a mixed-race immigrant family - ever be allowed inside? There were locks on every door and window. But it seemed at the time that all writers must have lived in the same grand and tightly guarded house. Wonderful writers, their stories rich and vibrant. I was still in high school, steeped in the words of Anglo men like Faulkner, Cheever and Updike. Her first novel, Arabian Jazz, was a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee her newest is Origin, a thriller with a phenomenally intuitive fingerprint expert for a heroine.īack, back, before I'd found Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Jamaica Kincaid or any of the other shining writers who lit an early path for me, there was Maxine Hong Kingston. Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent won the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction the Christian Science Monitor named it one of the 20 best novels of 2003. ![]()
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