02886cam a2200397 4500 2764177118 TxAuBib 20260519120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250292889 1250292883 53a419c6-4db2-49a4-bed0-13ac412e08d1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9510888 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Li, Yiyun. Wednesday's Child [Libby Audiobook] : Stories. Macmillan Audio, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 265MB. contemporary fiction. Short Stories. Friendship. motherhood. parenthood. marriage. family. Aging. grief. love. HTML:<p><b>This program is read by the author and includes an audio-only bonus story, <i>Call Me Ishmael's Mother</i>.<br /></b><br /> <b>A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of</b> <i>The Book of Goose.<br /></i><br /> A 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 Yiyun Li's stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the 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.<br /> 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 memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering pieces that have appeared in <i>The New Yorke</i>r, <i>Zoetrope</i>, and elsewhere. Taken together, the stories in <i>Wednesday's Child</i>, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living—exile, assimilation, loss, love—with her trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</b></p>. Short Stories. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-05-19 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=53a419c6-4db2-49a4-bed0-13ac412e08d1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)