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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.

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