{"product_id":"wednesdays-child-stories-9780374606374","title":"Wednesday's Child: Stories","description":"\u003cp\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 Yiyun Li's stories, 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. And 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLi 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 memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering pieces that have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorke\u003c\/i\u003er, \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Taken together, the stories in \u003ci\u003eWednesday's Child\u003c\/i\u003e, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living--exile, assimilation, loss, love--with her trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374606374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43040172802229,"sku":"9780374606374","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_92e9bc3f-91a0-4f24-99ef-ef90f5cd8a42.jpg?v=1689086191","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wednesdays-child-stories-9780374606374","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}