<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>

The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston

Memoirs of a Chinese-American girl growing up, clashing with the ideals her chinese heritage has imposed on the author, and her struggles to find her identity. She's neither fully American or Chinese, but falls somewhere confusingly inbetween the two (as many of us "Something-Americans" do). both cultures make that fact quite clear to her.

It doesn't matter what nationality one is, this book is for those of us who have felt out of place at any given time in our lives. That's everyone.

<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>

Behind Every Choice Is a Story
by Gloria Feldt

I have never read a book as insightful and human than this book, and what it expressed.

It doesn't press the ideals of pro-choicers (for those of you who are pro-life), but instead, it gives a face to the people affected by these vary issues that so many people argue about today; people who have never and will never go through what so many woman have gone through.

All too often we forget that there are people (and their stories) behind such things as abortion, adoption, birth control, health care, child care, ecetera.

Today's politics have made these issues a faceless debate platform. Something only mentioned to win votes with republicans or democrats.

This book give a voice and a familiar face to the millions of women (the "common everyday woman")who you never get to hear speak on or during political debates.

It's a must for anyone who wants to understand the real dynamics of issues that pertain to, and affect women.

<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>

The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros

Deliciously ethnic? Yes, but not in an off putting in-your-face sort of way. The ethnic aspect of the book is more of an under-tone, a vehicle, for the various short chapter stories (all connected). In terms of big brainy words, it's certainly not a complicated read. The book is short in length, but what it lacks in volume, it makes up for it in depth.

Cisnero's poetic style of story telling is truly refreshing and amazingly lyrical. This author may not be everyone's cup of tea (or coffee), but what does it hurt to try something new?

Sure, the majority of you are not young Hispanic girls who grew up in the "lower" part of Chicago. You won't relate to or "understand" that, but the narrator's experiences, observations, mode of thought (and so on) at such an age is really universal.