Wild Fruit

At first glance, the Li family looks like any other: one grumpy grandfather, two overworked parents, four siblings, and one small house for them all to live in. Still, with a journalist in the mix, its members can hardly hide their countless misfortunes. Xiaohan, the youngest daughter, shares her family’s unconventional life and exposes the depth of what it means to live in contemporary China today. Through sketches dedicated to each person in the Li clan, she shows how those close to her are forced to find new ways to survive, like wild fruit falling from a tree.

Sheng Keyi is the award-winning author of several collections of short stories and novels which include Northern Girls and Death Fugue. Northern Girls was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and her works have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and other languages.