Wednesday's Child

李翊云的这集短篇，写的全是'什么都不想要'的人：惯于隐藏的人、凭意志硬撑的人、想把自己锻造出来的女人。她们努力过着寻常日子，直到这份寻常再也维持不下去，裂缝之下——死亡、暴力、疏离——才浮现出来。全书被'丧子'这一内核贯穿，却没有撕心肝的哭号，只是把失去的痛平均地摊在每个'我'身上，让每位读者都分得一份。真正打动人的，是那种巨大的创痛里长出的无限耐心：哀伤不会因追问而化为喜剧，却让人忍不住想一窥冰山全貌。她写中年后的女人，写记忆的潮涨潮落，写一个母亲'曾爱过自己的儿子，现在仍然爱他'——她只能对此确定，却说不清缘由。沉重、压抑，却让人上瘾。

Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction―Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl―and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.