Bookends with Mattea Roach

Xiaolu Guo traces her unlikely journey from a rural Chinese fishing village to life in London as a writer

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Novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo discusses her memoir, Nine Continents, which traces her life from a Chinese fishing village to Beijing and England. It won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award. Guo spoke to Eleanor in 2018 about transforming her past into vivid art and literature. In 2023, she published a new memoir called Radical: A Life of My Own. WARNING: This discussion deals with suicide.

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