{"product_id":"dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life","title":"Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eYiyun Li\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780399589102\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House Trade Paperbacks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e224\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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\n\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 Søren 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\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life | Yiyun Li | Paperback | 9780399589102 | New | Memoir 1751992","offer_id":49004827017368,"sku":"1751992","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91zlwLhy14L.jpg?v=1778310138","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}