Gold Boy, Emerald Girl-Yiyun Li

As part of the awesomeness that is Iowa City, I actually got to see Yiyun Li read aloud from this collection of stories at Praire Lights ^_^ They are truly beautiful, complex, and haunting pieces of literature. Each story is about some person/people suffering from a tragically beautiful sort of isolation. All of the stories take place in China or deal with Chinese immigrants in America. She's sort of like the Jhumpa Lahiri of China except she's won tons more awards, however has yet to receive the Pulitzer. Overall, she's amazing!