No Name Women by Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Women by Maxine Hong Kingston is a story of one family who are Chinese-Americans. When Maxine’s mother had to warn her about life, she told stories that tested her strength to establish realties. ... Maxine was peaking womanhood when her mother said, “You must not tell anyone. ... ” Her aunt laid there the entire night breast feeding a child with no family and no family name. ... Your father does not want to hear her name. ... ” Her betrayal made the family so mad that, even after death, they never spoke her name. ... ” But there was more to this silence, Maxine said. ... ” After fifty years of neglect Maxine Hong Kingston, devotes these pages to her aunt because she believes her aunt “could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex.