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“You’re not alone”: Hong Kong-raised writer Xu Xi reflects on being betwixt and between cultures, languages, and life stages, and channels Confucian wisdom to understand the desire to make a stand at midlife.

* Xu Xi’s website
* This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (American Lives Series – University of  Nebraska Press, 2019)
* International MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Vermont College of Fine Arts
* @xuxiwriter on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

What happens when a globetrotter discovers Chuck Berry?
Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!