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001			on1381474649
003			OCoLC
005			20230914122757.0
008			230417s2023 nyua b 000 0aeng
010			_a 2023017382
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dJCX _dOQX _dGO6 _dNFG
020			_a9780802161567 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0802161561 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1381474649
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-ny
092			_aGUO, X. _bG977
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aGuo, Xiaolu, _d1973- _eauthor. _9256005
245	1	0	_aRadical : _ba life of my own / _cXiaolu Guo.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c2023.
300			_a338 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aGuo, Xiaolu, _d1973- _xTravel _zNew York (State) _zNew York.
650		0	_aAuthors, Chinese _y21st century _vBiography. _9345448
650		0	_aAuthors, English _y21st century _vBiography. _9237346
650		0	_aWomen college teachers _vBiography.
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _xDescription and travel. _9166662
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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999			_c373659 _d373659