Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. “There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. “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.” There is no good way to say this―because words fall short. It takes only an...

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KamillaSarkarova16 октября 2025 г.
The world, it seems to me, is governed by strong conviction and paltry imagination and meager understanding.
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KamillaSarkarova23 октября 2025 г.
A mother can cook every meal with great care, but a mother’s care, like a point in geometry, is essential to the order of things, insubstantial in the scale of things.
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KamillaSarkarova18 октября 2025 г.
Time flies, time is fleeting, but then there comes a moment when time, no longer nimble-footed, no longer winged, is for us to carry.
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