Name: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Paperback/Yiyun Li
Brand: Random House Trade
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In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. ``A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.``--Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead ``What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?`` Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter--and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Soren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Praise for Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life ``Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating--and from her experience she has produced a