A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers: Stories

'In this collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, [this collection] reveals worlds both foreign and familiar'--Dust jacket.A collection of short fiction by a Chinese-American author focuses on the role of fate in the lives of characters living both in China and in the United States.