From the author of Where Reasons End and The Book of Goose. A short story collection about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life.
Showcases Li's gift for dialogue and her deep understanding of human connection ... Compassion, coupled with Li's gorgeous prose and painstaking attention to detail, is what makes these stories so beautiful, so accomplished. This is a perfect collection by a writer at the top of her game, and a heart-wrenching look at how loss changes not only the bereaved, but their entire existence.
Although each of the stories in Wednesday’s Child can be found online through the publications in which they were originally published, it’s fortunate for readers that they have come together in this collection, perhaps the most compelling yet.
Li’s characters meditate coolly on meaning and mortality ... Li’s storytelling here is gradual, accretive, often refusing to settle into any kind of expected focus.
