{"id":5755,"date":"2012-04-17T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:18","slug":"one-book-one-chicago-gold-boy-emerald-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2012\/04\/17\/one-book-one-chicago-gold-boy-emerald-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"One Book, One Chicago: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5756\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/04\/teafinal1merge-231x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/04\/teafinal1merge-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/04\/teafinal1merge-791x1024.png 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please join all of Chicago in reading Yiyun Li&#8217;s remarkable short story collection <em>Gold Boy, Emerald Girl <\/em>and attend Loyola University Libraries&#8217; book discussion on <strong>Thursday, April 19, 2:00 &#8211; 3:30 p.m. Corboy Law Center, Conference Rm 727,<\/strong> 25 East Pearson Street, WTC. \u00a0Janette Kopacz, a Loyola alumna and a Chicago Public Librarian, will facilitate the program.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>Gold Boy, Emerald Girl <\/em>includes nine exquisite short stories set in modern China in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. Through Yiyun Li&#8217;s unforgettable characters, we learn about a country and a people who are not so different from us.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For more information, please call 773 508-2641.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join all of Chicago in reading Yiyun Li&#8217;s remarkable short story collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl and attend Loyola University Libraries&#8217; book discussion on Thursday, April 19, 2:00 &#8211; 3:30 p.m. Corboy Law Center, Conference Rm 727, 25 East Pearson Street, WTC. \u00a0Janette Kopacz, a Loyola alumna and a Chicago Public Librarian, will facilitate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":5757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17810,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/17810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}