Author Spotlight: Xiaolu Guo South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2017) Includes extra material: An interview

Includes extra material: An interview with Neil Gaiman and reading-group discussion questions

Its chapters are short

Albert Camus's first novel

and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue

and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players

Author Spotlight: Xiaolu Guo South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2017) Includes extra material: An interviewDescription: Xiaolu Guo is a prolific Chinese born British novelist, memoirist and film maker, who explores migration, alienation, and transnational identities through her works. Language is a series of excerpts from A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers, where passages are specifically picked out to depict the disorienting muddleness of a city when the language itself proves impenetrable. Meanwhile, A Concise Chinese Engish Dictionary