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A Sheltered Woman
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A Sheltered Woman
Audiobook39 minutes

A Sheltered Woman

Written by Yiyun Li

Narrated by Laurence Bouvard

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize

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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 16, 2015
ISBN9780008153687
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A Sheltered Woman
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Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was my first read for the Underhyped Readathon, running from the 26/27th of February and running until the 4-5th of March in 2016.

    For such a short story, this is a fantastic piece.

    Li manages to pack so much into such a tiny space and some of the lines in this narrative were beautiful. I don't want to talk about the plot, because if I say anything more than the blurb, it will spoil it. But this story really looks at themes like motherhood, what it means to be a woman, to have your own identity and the choices we make.

    Auntie Mei is a really interesting protagonist because she works in a way that allows the reader to write their own self onto her, as if she were a blank slate.

    I loved this story and I'm looking forward to reading more of Yuyin Li's work.