A Sheltered Woman
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A Sheltered Woman
Narrated by:
Laurence Bouvard
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Narrated by:
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Laurence Bouvard
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By:
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Yiyun Li
About this listen
Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize
Auntie 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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Critic reviews
"Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents." (Junot Díaz)
The title is interesting - who is the sheltered woman? and what is she sheltered from? Is it Chanel, is it Mei, was it her mothers, her grandmother? Or all of them. The final line " When she moved on to the next place, she would leave no mystery or damage behind; no one in this world would be disturbed by having known her" suggests to me that it is Mei herself you is sheltering herself from her true self by the life she has chosen to lead - a childless woman perpetually working with newborns, only to leave them untouched and untouched by them when they are one month old.
I do like stories which do not have a traditional ending!
motherless nanny perpetually works with newborns
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