A Sheltered Woman

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A Sheltered Woman
Yiyun Li

Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story PrizeAuntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Mei’s life – a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment.

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First published in the United States in 2014 by The New Yorker

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Title Page (#ulink_38946c4b-6333-5be9-8fcf-9f60f689e14a)

Copyright (#ulink_be47043d-a331-59b1-b32b-851d8f6eb5a3)

A Sheltered Woman (#ulink_af57f303-8d6d-5141-8757-063925f97ae0)

About the Author (#ulink_d52aa681-c182-5a34-aed8-fe5119e90004)

Also by Yiyun Li (#ulink_7af7d5fe-d488-54a4-891e-eba2a06811c6)

About the Publisher (#ue647436c-e8f7-5bbf-a977-ae1a01fa9cb1)