{"id":908,"date":"2008-11-01T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T01:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=908"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:00:27","slug":"twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth-by-xiaolu-guo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth-by-xiaolu-guo\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29879\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth.jpg\" alt=\"twenty fragments of a ravenous youth\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Although published over a decade ago in Guo&#8217;s native China \u2013 and since reworked in English by the author herself \u2013 Guo&#8217;s story set in a new China rushing toward modernization will surely have a long 21st-century shelf life. Guo&#8217;s young heroine, Fenfang, is a na\u00efve yet\u00a0determined village girl looking for love in all the wrong places in too-rapidly changing contemporary Beijing. Without any precedents to guide her, she turns to the available pop culture around her \u2013\u00a0pirated and out of date &#8230; <em>Betty Blue<\/em>? Tennessee Williams?\u00a0\u2013 as she struggles between homesickness for her family and old life and working to create an accurate new identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-909\" title=\"twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth.jpg\" alt=\"twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth\" width=\"123\" height=\"185\" \/>Although published over a decade ago in Guo&#8217;s native China \u2013 and since reworked in English by the author \u2013 Guo&#8217;s story set in a new China rushing toward modernization will surely have a long 21st-century shelf life. Guo&#8217;s young heroine, Fenfang, is a naive yet determined village girl looking for love in all the wrong places in too-rapidly changing contemporary Beijing. Without any precedents to guide her, she turns to the available pop culture around her \u2013 pirated and out of date &#8230; <em>Betty Blue<\/em>? Tennessee Williams? \u2013 as she struggles between homesickness for her family and old life and working to create an accurate new identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,6535],"tags":[1968,6608,58,11,13,3571,3277],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth","tag-xiaolu-guo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/twenty-fragments-of-a-ravenous-youth-by-xiaolu-guo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Although published over a decade ago in Guo&#039;s native China \u2013 and since reworked in English by the author \u2013 Guo&#039;s story set in a new China rushing toward modernization will surely have a long 21st-century shelf life. 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