{"product_id":"wednesdays-child-stories-yiyun-li-hardcover","title":"Wednesday's Child: Stories -- Yiyun Li, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection--about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life--by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eWednesday's Child\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYiyun 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yiyun Li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.57h x 5.75w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374606374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goose\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMust I Go\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKinder Than Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vagrants\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN\/Malamud Award, a PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45690191282404,"sku":"9780374606374","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780374606374.jpg?v=1728126548","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/wednesdays-child-stories-yiyun-li-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}