BOOK

Radical : a life of my own

Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- author

2023

Overview

\"From NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a playful, provocative memoir of a trip to New York that upended her sense of self as a woman, partner, mother, and artist. In the autumn of 2019, Xiaolu Guo traveled to New York to take up a visiting professorship for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American culture and people threatened her sense of identity and threw her into a crisis-of meaning, desire, obligation, and selfhood. This is a book about separation-by continents, by language, and from people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to connect. At once a memoir, a lexicon, and an ardent love letter, Radical is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the space in between\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
• Subject: Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- Travel New York (State) New York. / Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- / 2000-2099 / Authors, Chinese 21st century Biography. / Authors, English 21st century Biography. / Women college teachers Biography. / Écrivains chinois 21e siècle Biographies. / Authors, Chinese / Authors, English / Travel / Women college teachers / Chinese authors Biography. / English authors Biography. / Colleges and universities Faculty Biography. / New York (N.Y.) Description and travel. / New York (N.Y.) Descriptions et voyages. / New York (State) New York / New York (N.Y.) Description.
• ISBN: 9780802161567, 0802161561

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
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