Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

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Yiyun Li. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Contents

Kindness. ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

A Man Like Him

Prison

The Proprietress

House Fire

Number Three, Garden Road

Sweeping Past

Souvenir

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Acknowledgments

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Also by Yiyun Li

ABOUT THE TYPE

Copyright

About the Publisher

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YIYUN LI

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

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“Nini’s mama and I signed the divorce papers today,” he said.

I had known Nini’s mother for as long as I could remember. She was fifteen years older, ordinary in all ways but for her marriage. She was too old to be part of my generation, but not old enough to become one of those ubiquitous women we called “auntie,” who claimed the right to yell at any child from the neighborhood, so our paths had never crossed. It occurred to me that I had never, despite all the time I spent imagining his life, thought of her as someone dear to him. I wondered if she had been forced to divorce him by her parents, or if she had, at long last, joined the world in condemning him as a useless man.

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