Xiaolu Guo

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, Xiaolu Guo's memoir documents her trajectory from a small fishing village in rural China to life in the West as a fearless writer and filmmaker.

A Memoir in and Out of China

Nine Continents

Katie Chua

idk how to feel about this one ... it was a little slow in the beginning, picked up and then was hard to put down...and then the ending i was like bro, really? yet at the same time, it's a memoir so that's just how she was feeling but it kind of made me sad. 

also, this is a book that felt incredibly generalizing of "east v west" but sometimes ... i got it. like, that binary is something i've thought about my whole life and i can understand when an author uses it but it's also something i wish she could have used in a more clever way, if that makes sense

Nine Continents A Memoir in and Out of China

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