Kinder Than Solitude

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

YIYUN LI is the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and a MacArthur fellowship. Many of her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, which named her one of the top twenty writers under forty. She teaches at the University of California, Davis, and lives with her husband and two sons.