Wednesday's Child Historical Fiction A New York Times Notable

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Man Booker Prize finalist

they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with no hope for rescue

the grumpiness of Ebenezer Scrooge

an uninhabited Japanese island

a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to understand the mystery of her brother's death

Wednesday's Child Historical Fiction A New York Times NotableA new collectionabout loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary lifeby the award winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose. Yiyun Li traces the quiet fractures in ordinary livesthose moments when grief or longing makes the world tilt just a little. A mother copes with loss by cataloguing every loved one who has disappeared from her life. A professor slips into an uneasy intimacy with her hairdresser. And once a year, a