{"product_id":"kinder-than-solitude","title":"Kinder Than Solitude \/\/ A Novel (Pre-order, Jan 19 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeaving back and forth between China in the 1990s and America in 2010s, three people’s lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed in this magnificent novel from Yiyun Li, newly reissued.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious incident in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all of them are haunted by what happened in their youth and by doubt about themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, avoiding entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love—and with the outcome of what happened among the friends twenty years before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrilliantly written and a breathtaking page-turner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKinder Than Solitude \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eresonates with provocative observations about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound insight, Yiyun Li weaves a remarkable story that explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person’s present and future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\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\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Vagrants\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e—and the memoirs \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 Pulitzer Prize, 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 National Book Award. 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Picador\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: January 19, 2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9781250467713\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC: Fiction \/ Literary\u003cbr\u003eFiction \/ Psychological\u003cbr\u003eFiction \/ Women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Jan 19 2027) Paperback","offer_id":67772346990827,"sku":"9781250467713","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9781250467713.jpg?v=1791120750","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/kinder-than-solitude","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}