‘Perhaps there is no typical immigrant experience’: An interview with Yiyun Li
In A Sheltered Woman, winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2015, Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Mei’s life – a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment. Read More