[1] It was published in 2009, following her award-winning 2005 short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

[2] The novel won Li the 2009 gold medal of California Book Award for fiction.

[3] In Bookmarks May/June 2009 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) with the summary stating, "Reviewers were clearly impressed by The Vagrants, especially noteworthy because it is Li’s first novel".

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