Heart Radical - by Anne Liu Kellor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>As a mixed-race, bilingual Chinese American woman, Anne grew up unsure where she belonged. In her twenties, she travels alone to live and teach English in China, her mother's birthplace--a long, winding journey that ultimately teaches her to embrace her many layers of identity, claim her voice, speak her truth, and live in the present.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother's birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles--seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter--and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey? <p/>Whether witnessing a Tibetan sky burial, teaching English at a university in Chengdu, visiting her grandmother in LA, or falling in love with a Chinese painter, Anne is always in pursuit of intimacy with others, even as she is all too aware of her silences and separation. For two years, she settles into a comfortable routine in her boyfriend's apartment and regains fluency in Chinese, a language she spoke as a young child but has used less and less as an adult. Eventually, however, her desire to know herself in other ways surfaces again. She misses speaking English, she feels suffocated by urban, polluted China, and she starts to fall for another man. Ultimately, Anne realizes that to live her truth as a mixed-race, bilingual woman she must embrace all of her influences and layers. In a world that often wants us to choose a side or fit an ideal, she learns that she can both belong and not belong wherever she is, and that home is ultimately found within.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Heart Radical</i> is a richly absorbing, deeply moving book about one woman's search for identity, enlightenment, and connection. It's also a tender travel memoir that takes the reader on an unforgettable and intimate journey with the author as she grapples with being a twentysomething American in China--the country from which her mother immigrated. I loved this book. It's vulnerable, searching, insightful, riveting and beautifully written."<br>--Cheryl Strayed, author of <i>Wild</i> <p/> <p/>"Anne Liu Kellor's intimate and revealing memoir <i>Heart Radical</i> concerns a struggle to know oneself--and to get into the heart of the Chinese people through language." <p/>--<i>Foreword Reviews</i> (starred) <p/><br>"In <i>Heart Radical</i>, language becomes a rich metaphor for our own complicated and changing identities. 'To be radical, ' Anne Liu Kellor tells us, 'is to be rooted in your essential nature.' In this soulful memoir, Kellor looks to the many ways language is a means of communication, yes, but can also be a barrier to a full understanding of ourselves and of each other. In following Kellor's journey to China and back again, we find ourselves searching for what is most radical--most essential--in our own hearts."<br> --Brenda Miller, author of <i>An Earlier Life</i> <p/>"A lovely, evocative book about travel and culture and love. And language and teaching and dancing. And intimacy. If you have never been to China and Tibet--or if you have been many times--you'll enjoy this fresh and honest perspective."<br>--Sharman Apt Russell, author of <i>Hunger: An Unnatural History</i> <p/>"Traversing two countries across two decades, <i>Heart Radical</i> gets at the multiple meanings of the heart in word, in practice, in physical and emotional use and evolution. Vivid with sensory experiences, this book offers us the chance to travel not just with Kellor but also within our own interior landscapes to arrive at new and deeper ways of connecting to our hearts' most fervent and secret wishes."<br>--Khadijah Queen, author of <i>I'm So Fine</i> <p/>"Through personal and historical recollection and the language of wounding, <i>Heart Radical</i> speaks to land and culture, selfhood and belonging. To live within and without language, to ignore or embrace silence. This memoir is a refuge, a legacy, a heart breathing in one continuous motion."<i>--E. J. Koh, author of <i>The Magical Language of Others and A Lesser Love</i> <p/></i>"As I read <i>Heart Radical</i>, I yearned to go back to China--Anne's writing makes my bones ache. Expect to be led on a journey of the heart, a journey that is striking, haunting, and remarkable, one where you can stumble freely and yet somehow find your way home."<i>--</i>Crystal Chan, author of <i>Bird</i> and <i>All That I Can Fix</i><br>
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