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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 Søren 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 nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully." (The Washington Post)
"Li's transformation into a writer...is nothing short of astonishing.'" (The New York Times Book Review)
"An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression." (The Boston Globe)
"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." (Financial Times)
"Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend 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." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Yiyun Li's prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original." (San Francisco Chronicle)
Download Dear Friend from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Audible Audio Edition Yiyun Li Jennifer Ikeda Random House Audio Books
"Become redundant after a while."
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Dear Friend from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Audible Audio Edition Yiyun Li Jennifer Ikeda Random House Audio Books Reviews
- Interesting memoir. I don’t think I’ve ever read one where I learned almost nothing about the author. I did like that she talks about books and authors that have influenced her. I added some more books to my tbr. I think I’d prefer reading some fiction by this author than this memoir.
- and for anyone who has ever experienced a profound emotional pain that seems to be beyond language. Yiyun Li is simply one of the best writers working in English today. Highly recommended.
- Beautiful, eloquent memoir about the writer's battles with suicidal ideation. The author affirms life by writing and by describing the challenges and pleasures of a writer's life. Loved this. Her fiction is equally wonderful.
- Become redundant after a while.
- This book is absolutely stunning. It is both sad and full of hope, both touching and abrasive this is the first book I have read by this author, but now I’m on a quest to read them all.
- Very excited for this!
- Yiyun Li is already an excellent short story writer and novelist, and with this she brings memoirist to the picture. Highly recommend this book if you're a fan of her fiction and want to know her more.
- This book reads like a collection of some random thoughts. I don't particularly enjoy it.
