5Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li was called “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and is the winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed.
As one of the three observes, “Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.”
I find it intriguing, so it deserves its spot in this list.
