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    A Sheltered Woman
    A Sheltered Woman
    A Sheltered Woman
    Audiobook39 minutes

    A Sheltered Woman

    Written by Yiyun Li

    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard

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    About this audiobook

    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
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJul 16, 2015
    ISBN9780008153687
    A Sheltered Woman
    Author

    Yiyun Li

    Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including 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 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has 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 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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    • 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.