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they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with no hope for rescue

struggling to weave together the documents

” he says

influential

an uninhabited Japanese island

Wednesday's Child Historical Fiction they are brutally punished andA new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby the award winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. Yiyun Li traces the quiet fractures in ordinary livesthose moments when grief or longing makes the world tilt just a little. A mother copes with loss by cataloguing every loved one who has disappeared from her life. A professor slips into an uneasy intimacy with her hairdresser. And once a year, a