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A devastating and utterly original portrait of motherhood and grief.

About the Author

Yiyun Li is the author of three novels, Where Reasons End, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Reviews

an incredible piece of work
*Chris Power, Open Book*

a disquieting, delicate, affecting book
*Irish Times*

One of the most moving books I've ever read.
*Leslie Jamison*

Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art.
*Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers*

The writing is raw and deeply affecting.
*The Times*

Heart-rending
*The Sunday Times*

Li writes with a shimmering and deeply felt precision.
*Guardian*

Unsentimental, brave and beautiful. An absolutely monumental book.
*Daily Mail*

The most intelligent, insightful, heart-wrenching book of our time.
*Andrew Sean Greer*

A masterpiece. This book haunts me more than any other novel I've read in recent years.
*Garth Greenwell*