Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li

Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li'One of our major novelists' Salman Rushdie 'One of our finest living authors' New York Times A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life from Yiyun Li, the prize winning author of The Book of Goose A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman

Most of all

you will learn to integrate mindfulness into your life

Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy

Forever caught between check-in and check-out

Yiyun Li and Zakia Sewell

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change

His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men

she is assigned to The Cloisters

the streets no longer safe

Edna O'Brien resurrects a relationship of magnificent intensity on the page

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling exploration of what it takes to stay afloat in a world where your expiration - and the expiration of those you love - is the only certainty

multi-faceted and dynamic