The book jacket says "Yiyuan 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." The book is Wednesday's Child, and is made up of eleven short stories Many, most?, have to do with death and grief. It is apparent that Li is acquainted with loss. In fact her son committed suicide at age sixteen.
Li was born in China and now lives in Princeton, N.J., and teaches at Princeton University. The book engaged from the opening paragraph, is filled with insights about life and relationships and often left thinking "HUH? What does the mean?" It is a fascinating read about which I will long reflect. Yes, I recommend it.
Takk for alt,
Al
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