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4.51 AVERAGE
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While my heart breaks for the author I celebrate her honesty because radical acceptance changed the trajectory of my life when I was twenty-five.
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Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
Moderate: Suicide attempt
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Such beautiful writing from a mother grieving the deaths of her sons, both by suicide. There is no resolution, no change. Li describes her pain so exquisitely, so real-ly, that you can feel it off the page.
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An incredibly moving book about the labor of being in the wake of death.
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An exquisite book about Li's striving for "radical acceptance" of her two teenage sons' choices to die by suicide (in the same way) six years apart. Li teaches at Princeton University. She describes her sons Vincent and James with such beautiful unflinching care even as she dwells in "the abyss" now and will always be entangled in thoughts of them. Some of her perspectives challenged me (I resist some--because dying by suicide at 16 and 19 seems to me radically other than choosing death later-- but take them in as much as I can manage, to hold and honor and reflect upon).
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A book reflecting on life before and after the deaths of her two sons by suicide six years apart. Li’s reflection are heart breaking and filled with a deep everlasting love for her children. All too often when a writer writes a book like this there is a report “lesson” or revelation that they have found in a process of grieving their child but Li forces us to confront the fake that this loss is a never ending loss that must be contended with in the now and now and now. The precision of Li’s writing is admirable and inspiring.
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This is Yiyun Li's novel about James, her second teen son to die by suicide. Li describes her thoughts about everything that was happening after James died and relating that to her first son's death. She describes the mental issues that her and her sons dealt with. She had some really good sections in the book about how to be there for a person after a child's death and more importantly, what not to do. Her writing is beautiful. The book wasn't as sad as I was expecting and was actually more matter of fact about the issue.
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