Yiyun Li Reads “The Particles of Order”

The author reads her story from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine.
A portrait of Yiyun Li in a collage.
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Denise Applewhite / Courtesy Princeton University

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Yiyun Li reads her story “The Particles of Order,” from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published next year.