by
Yiyun Li
published in
2023
Jess P says:
Wednesday's Child is indeed full of woe, but threading through the sadness is Li's uncanny ability to turn the ordinary extraordinary.
Written over the span of a decade, this new collection of stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters striving for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable as the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces-- death, violence, estrangement-- come to light.