{"product_id":"wednesdays-child-9780374606374","title":"Wednesdays Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory Prize, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Fiction,  and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by  \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby 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 the stories of \u003ci\u003eWednesday's Child\u003c\/i\u003e, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forcesdeath, violence, estrangementcome 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYiyun 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Taken together, these stories, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of livingexile, assimilation, loss, lovewith Li's trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525047787863,"sku":"9780374606374","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374606374.jpg?v=1731859038","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wednesdays-child-9780374606374","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}