“I always feel that how people treat animals is not too far from how people treat each other, especially under stress or under certain circumstances…”

—  Yiyun Li

Source: On including animal deaths in her work as symbolism in “An Interview with Yiyun Li” https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-yiyun-li/ in Brick Magazine (2019 Feb 19)

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Chinese American writer 1972

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