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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780374606374
Short Stories
Wednesday's Child
by
Yiyun Li
Wednesday's Child by
Yiyun Li
Reviews
"An infinite variety of ways to survive--or, at least, march through--devastating loss are cataloged in Li's cool and measured litany of pain . . . The cumulative mass of the stories is sobering, a gorgeous almanac . . . Quiet, beautiful accounts of journeys through hell."
Kirkus Reviews
Summary
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 Yiyun Li’s stories, 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. And even 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.