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Why Xiaolu Guo Writes in English

“I found this liberation from the limitation…” In this Asia Society video, Xiaolu Guo explains why writing in English, her second language, is so freeing. Guo is the winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography for her memoir, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (Grove Press, 2017).

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Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Grove Press
2017
memoir
National Book Critics Circle Award

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