Li yiyun. a Chinese writer, a new rising star will give a reading next
Monday at prairie light. Her first book "a thousand years of good prayers"
won the biggest award (Frank O'connor) in international short story category
. I have read her work and some of them are really good. What amazes me the
most were 1)she came to Iowa to study Immunology 2) she started writing in
English after she came to the US for her graduate school 3) she told me that
she hadn't written anything in Chinese before an
