Wednesday’s Child
SKU: 9780008531904
At a glance
- ✨ Mood
- Quiet, melancholic, introspective
- ⏳ Pace
- Slow, contemplative
- 🌿 Atmosphere
- Intimate, subdued, emotionally restrained
- 💭 Themes
- Loss, grief, family, mental health
- 🧠 Depth
- Profound, psychological
- 💬 Hook
- In the aftermath of tragedy, a mother navigates the fragile space between memory and survival.
- 👥 Perfect For
- Fans of Rachel Cusk, introspective literary fiction
- 📖 Readers Who’ll Love This
- Readers who appreciate quiet, deeply emotional stories exploring grief, motherhood, and the complexities of the human mind
About Wednesday's Child By Yiyun Li
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 the stories of Wednesday’s Child, 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. 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.
Yiyun 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 The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and other publications. Taken together, these stories, written over the span of a decade, articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living―exile, assimilation, loss, love―with Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and wisdom.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading age
- 18+
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- 6 August 2024
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780008531904
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