# Wednesday's Child: Stories - Hardcover

by **Yiyun Li** (Author)

**Finalist for the Story Prize and the 2023 _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize for Fiction**  
**Named a Best Book of 2023 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.  
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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.

### Author Biography

**Yiyun Li** is the author of seven works of fiction--_The Book of Goose_; _Must I Go_; _Where Reasons End_; _Kinder Than Solitude_; _Gold Boy, Emerald Girl_; _The Vagrants_; and _A Thousand Years of Good Prayers_\--and the memoir _Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life_. 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 _The New Yorker_, _A Public Space_, _The Best American Short Stories_, and _The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories_, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 0.98 x 8.57 x 5.75 IN

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2023

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