{"product_id":"gold-boy-emerald-girl-9780812980158","title":"Gold Boy, Emerald Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student's true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, \u003ci\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eMust I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir \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 PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328686821650,"sku":"9780812980158","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4aaec191-ecc6-4bc2-a2da-9b598f6987cf.jpg?v=1727748719","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gold-boy-emerald-girl-9780812980158","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}