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4.53 AVERAGE
4.53 AVERAGE
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Graphic: Suicide
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My friends who know me well know I am not a crier (my family would disagree, I think), but I found myself sniffling and teary the whole way through this book. I read it in a single sitting on the flight home (likely to the chagrin of everybody within earshot of 41F). It’s not so much a page-turner—a mother’s reflections after losing both sons to suicide can hardly be called as such—as much as each passage seems to yield itself completely and unrelentingly to the next; there is no good place to stop.
I am fortunate enough to have never grieved, nor have I had children; I imagine the weight of Li’s loss would make this book entirely unreadable had I experienced either of those two.
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Deeply tragic, stunningly written book dedicated to the author’s son who committed suicide.
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Graphic: Suicide
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A very unique and logical perspective on suffering.
“Knowing something that may or may not happen in the future does not exempt one from the tasks of living”
“Knowing something that may or may not happen in the future does not exempt one from the tasks of living”