Description
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. 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 grand mysterious forces — death, violence, estrangement — come to light. 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.
Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child articulate the true cost of living with all Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom.
A dazzling collection of short stories spanning fifteen years of writing. Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of the tender and unsentimental, the metaphysical and blunt, the funny and horrifying; omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know.
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