Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

✍ Scribed by Li, Yiyun

• Book ID: 109623048
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 294 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780399589096

✦ Synopsis

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...