{"id":63456,"date":"2022-03-17T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63456"},"modified":"2022-03-17T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:13:28","slug":"a-daughters-quest-on-anne-liu-kellors-heart-radical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63456","title":{"rendered":"A Daughter\u2019s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor\u2019s \u201cHeart Radical\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/a-daughters-quest-on-anne-liu-kellors-heart-radical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Daughter\u2019s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor\u2019s \u201cHeart Radical\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Review of Books<\/a><br \/>\n2021-11-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyreardonbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amy Reardon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/a-daughters-quest-on-anne-liu-kellors-heart-radical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 35%; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/larb-main-img-cdn.azureedge.net\/unsafe\/1280x0\/filters:format(jpeg)\/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F11%2Fheartradical.jpeg\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 35%; display: block;\">Anne Liu Kellor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging<\/em><\/a> (Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2021)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneliukellor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Liu Kellor<\/a> struggled to understand the ache she carried inside. Her debut memoir, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heart Radical<\/a><\/em>, tracks the author\u2019s journeys to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a> and back home again in the late \u201990s and early 2000s in search of her true self.<\/p>\n<p>We meet Kellor after college, having become consumed with the need to learn the Chinese language and live in China. What she can\u2019t seem to get her hands around is why. \u201cAll I knew was \u2014 I was filled with an intense longing and sorrow. Sorrow for the magnitude of suffering in the world, in China and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tibet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tibet<\/a>, and within myself. Sorrow which I felt so clearly, but couldn\u2019t understand why I felt so deep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are clues. First among them, a general sense of opacity in her relationship with her mother, who immigrated from China as a girl, married a white man, and had two daughters. Also, there is this: \u201c[N]or had anyone ever talked to me about what it was like to grow up <em>multiracial<\/em> \u2014 neither white nor fully Chinese, nor yet invited into a wider inclusivity as a person of color. Instead, everywhere I went, even at family reunions, I was simply reminded of my difference.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/a-daughters-quest-on-anne-liu-kellors-heart-radical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Daughter\u2019s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor\u2019s \u201cHeart Radical\u201d Los Angeles Review of Books 2021-11-12 Amy Reardon Anne Liu Kellor, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2021) GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN in Seattle, Anne Liu Kellor struggled to understand the ache she carried inside. Her debut memoir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[33276,28996,221,14582,32281,20402],"class_list":["post-63456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amy-reardon","tag-anne-liu-kellor","tag-china","tag-los-angeles-review-of-books","tag-mandarin","tag-tibet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63457,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63456\/revisions\/63457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}