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Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with author Yiyun Li about her works. The novelist and short story writer came to the United States from China in 1996 to study immunology, but fell in love with creative writing. She's gone on to win numerous awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and a MacArthur 'genius' grant. Li's works include Kinder than Solitude, Gold boy, Emerald Girl, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.
Franklin talks with Li about her life, the themes in her works and her style of writing.