Things in Nature Merely Grow

by Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance 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."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374617317
• ISBN13: 9780374617318
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.5"