author: yiyun li

... instructions. “You are what you wear,” he wrote in one letter, going on to ... smart, join a company or a firm that would pay better. Rich came from a background ... than yell at your wives and children so that you can feel good about ...

... come for him at the end of the semester. Sometimes Granny Lin wonders if the father will ever come and what will become of Kang if no one picks him up when summer comes. Will he be able to stay with her at the school? Then she wonders ...

... My favorite speaker was a former ballet dancer, who started his talk with a song, the lyrics taken from an Emily Dickinson poem; when he finished singing, his pink shirt was drenched with sweat, and he left the audience in tears. My least ...