{"product_id":"dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life-book-yiyun-li-9780399589096","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\u003eA 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\u003eWhat 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\u003eAn 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49565172662545,"sku":"CIN0399589090G","price":9.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103908131089,"sku":"CIN0399589090VG","price":16.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0399589090.jpg?v=1751260452","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life-book-yiyun-li-9780399589096","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}