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Title: Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) by Arlene Voski Avakian ISBN: 1-55861-052-9 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read
Comment: a very powerful book! It left me hungry - throughout the whole reading - all the food for soul!!! I am very glad I read it - this intricate metamorphosis of an Armenian woman. It answered many questions of fitting in and breaking the rules of set roles.

Rating: 4
Summary: You go girl !
Comment: When I first received my copy of Lion women's Legacy, I was very judgmental. Would this be another book about some woman's memoir talking endlessly about her nice childhood in a nice Armenian community, her family, her bright future, ideal marriage, great kids and a happy loving ending as is the case in most Armenian women's memoirs? But I was delighted to read the first few pages; this was something different, something fresh most of all something real. The author was talking about real people, real emotions. The story is about the coming of age of a young Armenian-American woman in New York in the sixties, seventies. Born to Armenian immigrant parents, Arlene V. Avakian retraces with vivid images, charming stories of her childhood, bringing to life different family figures (mother, grandmother, aunts, and father...). The cultural elements included by the author give an exotic aspect to the book; we could easily smell the food cooking in the kitchen, the spices, hear the laughter of the women, the music, the language, etc. It is about the conflict lived by the young girl between the old country's traditions and customs still alive in the Armenian family and in a way imposed upon her and her desire to be completely American and assimilated to the new culture she adopted. It is also about the difficult road she took to play an active role in determining her future as a young emancipated woman in a society where women's issues were just starting to shake the institutions. And it is most of all a quest to find her true identity as a woman, as an Armenian and as an American. Her straightforwardness stands out throughout the book and touched my soul. Very inspiring and real!