The Vagrants: A Novel

YIYUN LI is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. A native of Beijing & a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she is the recipient of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Whiting Writers’ Award, & the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007, Granta named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, & elsewhere. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, & lives in Oakland, California, with her husband & their two sons.