{"product_id":"things-in-nature-merely-grow-hardcover","title":"Things in Nature Merely Grow - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is no good way to say this,\" Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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: \"doing the things that work,\" including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, \"The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now.\" \u003ci\u003eThings in Nature Merely Grow\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eWednesday's Child\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goose\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMust I Go\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eKinder Than Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Vagrants\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN\/Faulkner Award, a PEN\/Malamud Award, a PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.32 x 5.73 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984029450541,"sku":"9780374617318","price":25.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/MUtNzsCdVZ9780374617318.webp?v=1776081487","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/things-in-nature-merely-grow-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}