The Funeral Cryer, Wenyan LuDebut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one womans mid life reawakening in contemporary rural China, for fans of Yiyun Li and Julie Otsuka. The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and under appreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break up. But just when things couldn't be

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" or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary

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”—Vogue

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