How long does it take to read The Woman Warrior?
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston takes about 3 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1976. 209 pages, about 57,475 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors - tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother's stories with stories of her own, engaging her family's past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
Subjects: American Authors, Asian Americans, Biography, Childhood and youth, Chinese Americans, Chinese in California
