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"I'm pretty much retired," I said.
"Not formally, because there's no need.
But I don't go looking for business, and the phone doesn't ring very often,
and when it does I usually find a reason to turn down whatever's on offer
From All the Flowers Are Dying by Lawrence Block. HarperCollins Publishers. Used by permission.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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