"There is a magnetic small-town universality to The Vagrants.but this is small-town universality with a difference. Yiyun Li writes with a quiet, steady force, at once stoic and heartbreaking." -Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl "A starkly moving portrayal of China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, this book weaves together the stories of a vivid group of characters all struggling to find a home in their own country. This is not an easy read, only a necessary and deeply moving one." -Amy Bloom, author of Away "This is a book of loss and pain and fear that manages to include such unexpected tenderness and grace notes that, just as one can bear it no longer, one cannot put it down. The China that Yiyun Li shows us is one most Americans haven't seen, but her tender and devastating vision of the ways human beings love and betray one another would be recognizable to a citizen of any nation on earth." -Nell Freudenberger, author of The Dissident "Every once in a while a voice and a subject are so perfectly matched that it seems as if this writer must have been born to write this book. The Vagrants is an enormous achievement." -Ann Patchett, author of Run "Yiyun Li has written a book that is as important politically as it is artistically.
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