2020-12-02
1 小时 5 分钟Samantha Hunt joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Sheltered Woman,” by Yiyun Li, which appeared in a 2014 issue of the magazine. Hunt’s four books of fiction include the story collection “The Dark Dark,” which was published in 2017, and “The Seas,” for which she won the National Book Foundations’s 5 Under 35 Award in 2006.
This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
This month, we're going to hear a sheltered woman by Yi Yun Lee, which was published in the New Yorker in March of 2014.
I don't like this soup, said the mother, who surely had a chinese name but had asked Auntie Mae to call her Auntie Mae, however, called every mother baby's ma and every infant baby.
The story was chosen by Samantha Hunt, whose four books of fiction include the story collection the Dark Dark, which was published in 2017.
Hi, Samantha.
Hi, Debra.
Thanks for having me.
How did Yi and Li's work first come into your life?
That's a great question.
I have to say, I think it was originally from the New Yorker.
It wasn't this story.
This wasn't the first en story I encountered.
Maybe it was extra.
This one, though a sheltered woman, has always stayed with me so deeply.
There's no easy way to forget it.
There's no easy way to feel like I'm done thinking about it.
And I've been interested to see how often it returns to me again and again.
And I think that I initially was so attracted to it because it's such a complicated story about mothering.