Summary: In 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston published The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. A wild adaptation of the story of Fa Mulan, the book combined lyric fiction and nonfiction, shapeshifting fabulism with memoiristic prose. For the 40th anniversary of this feminist classic, we brought Maxine Hong Kingston in conversation with author Monique Truong, where they discuss spirituality, titling the Woman Warrior, and Maxine hanging out with Alice Walker in jail by the Arizona border.
