TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guo,Xiaolu
TI  - Radical: a life of my own 
SN  - 9780802161567
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Guo, Xiaolu,
KW  - Authors, Chinese
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - Women college teachers
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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"--
ER  -