Things in nature merely grow
Li, Yiyun, 1972-2025
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'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 just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning.
Main title:
Things in nature merely grow / Yiyun Li.
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Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2025.London : 4th Estate, 2025.
Collation:
192 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780008753870 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
3032948