The Woman Warrior... so far

So far I have read up to the part where she is just starting to go away from the old people that she was living and training with for the past fifteen years. There is nothing that is really confusing me at this point because i had all my questions the other day in class. My thoughts of whats going on so far is that some things didn't seem very real in the story, such as eating the ten pounds of sap and then you would live forever... that was kind of untrue. But then again this is just a story so what can you expect. Besides those couple of things I really dont think that there is much that i need clearing up on yet. At this point and time in the book I'm pretty clear on everything thats going on.