Not my fave collection of Li‘s, but still strong. Determination & melancholy. Isolated characters. Fear of emotion. Deep pain dulled by denial. Memory. Records. Family. Pain built up over years. Kindness of strangers. Beautiful, glancing prose. P222 “They were lonely & sad people, all three of them, and they would not make one another less sad, but they could, with great care, make a world that would accommodate their loneliness.” 2010