{"product_id":"gold-boy-emerald-girl-stories-paperback","title":"Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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, \u003ci\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e follows men and women whose lives appear modest, even uneventful, yet are shaped by unspoken longings and private reckonings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA middle-aged woman looks back on a life of service and emotional restraint, tracing the origins of her loneliness. A grieving couple returns from America to China, hoping to replace loss with new life through surrogacy. A retired professor tries to arrange a perfect marriage for her son, unaware of the deeper, more complicated bonds already in place. Across these nine stories, chance encounters, small acts of kindness, and well-intentioned plans open into quiet catastrophes or unexpected grace. Li's characters move through ordinary routines--work, family obligations, social rituals--while carrying desires they barely allow themselves to name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpare, tender, and piercingly observant, \u003ci\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis a luminous collection about the emotional lives that unfold beneath the surface of everyday existence, and about the human need for connection even when it arrives too late, or in forms we never anticipated.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eWednesday's Child\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goose\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMust I Go\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eKinder Than Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Vagrants\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e--and of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThings in Nature Merely Grow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN\/Faulkner Award, a PEN\/Malamud Award, a PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56435907723569,"sku":"9781250467690","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/PNgKO9BrPM9781250467690.webp?v=1790171494","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/gold-boy-emerald-girl-stories-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}