Radical : a life of my own /
Guo, Xiaolu, 1973-
Radical : a life of my own / Xiaolu Guo. - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9780802161567 0802161561
2023017382
Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- --Travel--New York (State)--New York.
Authors, Chinese--21st century--Biography.
Authors, English--21st century--Biography.
Women college teachers--Biography.
New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
Autobiographies.
Radical : a life of my own / Xiaolu Guo. - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9780802161567 0802161561
2023017382
Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- --Travel--New York (State)--New York.
Authors, Chinese--21st century--Biography.
Authors, English--21st century--Biography.
Women college teachers--Biography.
New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
Autobiographies.