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02335aam a2200373 i 4500 001 62A1AFC47A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231103010033 008 230417t20232023nyua b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023017382 020 $a 0802161561 020 $a 9780802161567 035 $a (OCoLC)1381474649 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d JCX $d OQX $d GO6 $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a PR9450.9 G86 Z46 2023 100 1 $a Guo, Xiaolu, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Radical : $b a life of my own / $c Xiaolu Guo. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, $c 2023. 300 $a 338 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Guo, Xiaolu, $d 1973- $x Travel $z New York. $z New York. 650 0 $a Authors, Chinese $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, English $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women college teachers $v Biography. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x Description and travel. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- $t Radical. $b First Grove Atlantic paperback edition $d New York : Grove Press, 2023 $z 9780802161574 $w (DLC) 2023017383 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205011601.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=62A1AFC47A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search