{"product_id":"wednesday-s-child-by-yiyun-li","title":"Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eN A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and 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. Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday's Child articulate the true cost of living with all Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mount Florida Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45791122850036,"sku":"9780008531904","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780008531904.jpg?v=1725356440","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.live\/products\/wednesday-s-child-by-yiyun-li","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}