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4.52 AVERAGE
4.52 AVERAGE
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A very personal and deep book on how the author copes and ponders over the death of her youngest son whom she honours through this book.
Children die, and parents go on living.
The book is astonishing, the words carefully chosen, circularity by reusing certain sentences with slightly different meanings. Unfathomable to lose both children by suicide and having “radical acceptance” of the choices they made.
A beautiful book, though not for everyone.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Grief
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide
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Content Warnings
Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt
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Loved this book. It touched me deeply. I feel that any parent that has a child that struggles with mental health issues should read this book.. Yiyun Li writes beautifully about the lack of control a parent has in their adult child’s life and learning to accept that. It’s a touching, thought provoking book.
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This is a powerful account of a horrifying set of events, but it's not, for me, a very good memoir, or essay, or whatever it might be called. It's very intimate but very distant, and it feels like I need more context from Li's other work or her life to really engage with it successfully.
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