Yiyun Li has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2003. Her books include the story collection “ Wednesday’s Child ,” which was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize, and the memoir “ Things in Nature Merely Grow .”
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Fiction by Yiyun Li, the author of “Things in Nature Merely Grow” and “The Book of Goose”: And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore.
Fiction by Yiyun Li, the author of “The Book of Goose,” “Wednesday’s Child,” and “Things in Nature Merely Grow”: It’s astonishing, Lilian often thought, that people feel this urge to talk about themselves with a stranger.