If you like Yi Yun Li's work, you definitely should check out her remarkabe first book- the short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. I put in the top tier of what I call "the poignant ponds", classical stories like Chekov, Joyce's Dubliners, William Trevor, Grace Paley, Pat Barker's Union Street, Richard Wright's Uncle To…
If you like Yi Yun Li's work, you definitely should check out her remarkabe first book- the short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. I put in the top tier of what I call "the poignant ponds", classical stories like Chekov, Joyce's Dubliners, William Trevor, Grace Paley, Pat Barker's Union Street, Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, Sherman Alexie, ram.]rand James Alan Mcpherson, for years the lead teacher at the immortal IOWA MFA Program. McPherson also wrote two of the finer short story collections ever vwritten anywhere - Hue and Cry, and Elbow Room.
If you like Yi Yun Li's work, you definitely should check out her remarkabe first book- the short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. I put in the top tier of what I call "the poignant ponds", classical stories like Chekov, Joyce's Dubliners, William Trevor, Grace Paley, Pat Barker's Union Street, Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, Sherman Alexie, ram.]rand James Alan Mcpherson, for years the lead teacher at the immortal IOWA MFA Program. McPherson also wrote two of the finer short story collections ever vwritten anywhere - Hue and Cry, and Elbow Room.