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How to pronounce Yiyun Li: ee-yoon lee
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Li Cunxin was born into an extremely poor peasant
family in Qingdoa, a remote commune village in Northern China in 1961.
The sixth son in a family of seven sons, he lived in a small
house with twenty of his relatives. The ...
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If you enjoyed:
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
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Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of ten books — including Eat Pray Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear — which altogether have sold over 25 million copies worldwide.
Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, ...
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The Book of Goose
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City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in ... (more)
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
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Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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