Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories

A piercing collection of stories about ordinary lives in contemporary China, where loneliness, longing, and small acts of kindness expose the fragile ways people reach for connection.

From the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Yiyun Li comes a quietly devastating collection of stories about solitude, devotion, grief, and the fragile ways people reach for one another in a changing world. Set largely in contemporary China, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl follows men and women whose lives appear modest,...