Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker's top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student's true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

Shall I Go, Where Causes End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl are among Yiyun Li's works of fiction, as well as the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She has won numerous accolades, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and the Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in The New Yorker's fiction issue 20 Under 40. The New Yorker, A Public Place, The Best American Short Stories, and The O have all published her work. Among other publications, Henry Prize Tales. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and lectures at Princeton University.