{"product_id":"wednesdays-child-stories-paperback","title":"Wednesday's Child: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Story Prize and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, NPR, and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Vagrants\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\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\/Faulkner Award, 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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52023711957293,"sku":"9781250338389","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/wednesdays-child-stories-paperback-6842001.webp?v=1777431126","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/wednesdays-child-stories-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}