Radical : a life of my own
Book |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
Grove Press,
New York :
2023.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | 828.9203 Guo | Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
"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"--
Details
- ISBN: 9780802161567
- Physical Description: 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmprint
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-335).