Cover of Yiyun Li: Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li Things in Nature Merely Grow

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English

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Book information

HarperCollins Publishers

UK

2026

Paperback

192

Standard

327333

978-0-00-875384-9

0-00-875384-9

Advice on parenting (Probably wouldn't take parenting advice from this to be honest)

Annotation

‘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. In this remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance, Li turns to thinking and searching for words that might hold a place for her son, James. Li does ‘the things that work’: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.

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