Li Yiyun - Wednesday's Child Stories - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize the Story Prize the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times Vulture Esquire NPR and Kirkus Reviews A new collection - about loss alienation aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - by the award - winning and inimitable author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Child people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces - death violence estrangement - come to light. Even before such moments everyday life is laden with meaning studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey a mound of wounded ants a photograph kept hidden for many years until it must be seen. Yiyun Li is a truly original writer an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental metaphysical and blunt funny and horrifying omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and her memoir she returns here to her earliest form gathering pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker Zoetrope and other publications. Taken together these stories written over the span of a decade articulate the cost both material and emotional of living - exile assimilation loss love - with Li's trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.
Title: Wednesday's Child Stories
Author(s): Li Yiyun
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374606374
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Short Stories