{"product_id":"dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life-9780399589102","title":"Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.\"--Marilynne Robinson, author of \u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStartlingly 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, \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 S ren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, \u003ci\u003eDear Friend \u003c\/i\u003eis a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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 nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Li's transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.'\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Every writer is a reader first, and \u003ci\u003eDear Friend\u003c\/i\u003e is Li's haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Yiyun Li's prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yiyun Li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780399589102","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44134527271049,"sku":"9780399589102","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d60bdcf8-b8db-4bf4-9f2c-b521de8a852a.jpg?v=1748393306","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life-9780399589102","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}