The Long View: New Fiction From Edmund White and Yiyun Li

Join us online as authors Yiyun Li and Edmund White discuss their upcoming novels, which detail their characters’ whole lives and how their choices affected their fates.

Yiyun’s Must I Go is an epistolary story centered on an elderly woman who has outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Edmund’s A Saint from Texas is a bold and sweeping story that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood.