Wednesday's Child: Stories

"The short stories in Yiyun Li’s new collection focus chiefly on people trying to put themselves together after some kind of loss: dealing with anguish that takes its time, rising from its dormancy at unexpected moments. Li is a master at understanding human emotion, but her tenderness never gives way to sentimentality; her compassion, coupled with her gorgeous prose and painstaking attention to detail, is what makes these stories so beautiful, so accomplished. This is a perfect collection by a writer at the top of her game."