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Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Her most recent novel is Kinder Than Solitude. She lives in California.

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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

All that Offers a Happy Ending Is a Fairy Tale

Yiyun Li

‘If you were like me, you would know the obsession of the compulsive reader: every street sign; every bottle label’

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Fiction | The Online Edition

Kinder Than Solitude

Yiyun Li

Celia’s message on Ruyu’s voicemail sounded panicked, as though Celia had been caught in a...

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From Dream to Dream

Yiyun Li

‘At what point had one’s life stopped belonging to one?’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

First Sentence: Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li

‘But for her, and perhaps for many, the solidity of an invented life is not trustworthy.’

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Fiction | The Online Edition

Home: reflections for Anthony Shadid

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Photo by Nada Bakri. This week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone – which tells...

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Fiction | The Online Edition

House Fire

Yiyun Li

‘The six friends declared war against love outside marriage.’

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