The New Yorker: Fiction · The New Yorker
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li
November 1, 2022·1 hr 1 min·5 clips
Yiyun Li taught that the relationships between characters must be the heart of every story.
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A patient, aching episode where salon small talk opens into memory, motherhood, and grief.
Yiyun Li's "All Will Be Well" gives this New Yorker: Fiction episode its quiet ache: a young mother, a salon chair, a woman named Lily, and the stories people tell when plain life feels too exposed.
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