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The Sunday Read: ‘How Yiyun Li Became a Beacon for Readers in Mourning’

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Lee's Immortality

After four years in her course of study, Lee told her husband that she no longer wanted to be a scientist. She took an evening class taught by a poet and wrote for two years on her own. Immortality was plucked from the slush pile of the Paris Review and published by the editor at the time,. The Vagrants is about a remote Chinese village and the consequences of the execution of a young local woman who resisted the Communist Order.

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