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 & 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’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Kinder Than Solitude
Yiyun Li
‘Being let down was Celia’s fate; life never failed to bestow upon her pain and disappointment she had to suffer on everyone’s behalf, so that the world could go on being a good place, free from real calamities.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 125
Yiyun Li | First Sentence
Yiyun Li
‘But for her, and perhaps for many, the solidity of an invented life is not trustworthy.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 125
Home: Reflections for Anthony Shadid
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‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’