Things in Nature Merely Grow [electronic resource]

Yiyun Li2025

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'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS 'There are few writers with Li’s power' DOUGLAS STUART 'An extraordinary book’ SARAH MOSS 'A manifesto of living' SINÉAD GLEESON A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James. 'There is no good way to say this,' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. 'There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.' There is no good way to say this – because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, 'a single point in a timeline'. Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: including not ju...