Lillian: Stories
Jun 2027 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Conversations with solemn children, bereaved parents, and forthcoming strangers become four glimpses into one woman’s life: four stories of remarkable introspection and resolve from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
A mourning mother, traveling alone, stays at a cottage in the English countryside. She finds herself unwillingly pulled into small talk with the house’s lonesome caretaker, but the exchanges become an anchor.
A woman shouldering a recent loss goes to her doctor’s office for a routine visit, where she meets an enigmatic new employee. The brief conversation they share unsettles the woman when, instead of the usual platitudes, she is met with surprising scrutiny.
The woman and her husband are parents without children. Back home after their overseas travels, the woman is resigned to their new, listless rhythm of life—until it is interrupted by a famous scholar, who reveals to her something stark about kindness and cruelty.
The woman and her husband are parents without children. Back home after their overseas travels, the woman is resigned to their new, listless rhythm of life—until it is interrupted by a famous scholar, who reveals to her something stark about kindness and cruelty.
These four portraits—first published in The New Yorker, now united—open up the beauty, mystery, and devastation existing in a life, and in the world. Lillian is a writer’s immense literary gifts distilled into a potent volume, as Yiyun Li renders the insoluble, inexplicable human condition with a precision and grace unlike any other.
A mourning mother, traveling alone, stays at a cottage in the English countryside. She finds herself unwillingly pulled into small talk with the house’s lonesome caretaker, but the exchanges become an anchor.
A woman shouldering a recent loss goes to her doctor’s office for a routine visit, where she meets an enigmatic new employee. The brief conversation they share unsettles the woman when, instead of the usual platitudes, she is met with surprising scrutiny.
The woman and her husband are parents without children. Back home after their overseas travels, the woman is resigned to their new, listless rhythm of life—until it is interrupted by a famous scholar, who reveals to her something stark about kindness and cruelty.
The woman and her husband are parents without children. Back home after their overseas travels, the woman is resigned to their new, listless rhythm of life—until it is interrupted by a famous scholar, who reveals to her something stark about kindness and cruelty.
These four portraits—first published in The New Yorker, now united—open up the beauty, mystery, and devastation existing in a life, and in the world. Lillian is a writer’s immense literary gifts distilled into a potent volume, as Yiyun Li renders the insoluble, inexplicable human condition with a precision and grace unlike any other.
Conversations with solemn children, bereaved parents, and forthcoming strangers become four glimpses into one woman’s life: four stories of remarkable introspection and resolve from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
A mourning mother, traveling alone, stays at a cottage in the English countrysi...
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About the author
Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and of the memoirs Things in Nature Merely Grow and Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Malamud Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and Windham–Campbell Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and of the memoirs Things in Nature Merely Grow and Dear Friend, from My Life I W...
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