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4.52 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
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emotional
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
reflective
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
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Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
reflective
sad
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
“Things in nature merely grow until it’s time for them to die.”
“And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.”
In the face of life’s extremities, how does one still live a liveable life that is worth living? Li Yiyun examines how one live a life in thinking in the abyss in this profound memoir of James, her younger son who died by suicide 7 years after the suicide of her older son Vincent. When the “abyss” becomes our “habitat”, to live in “radical acceptance is “to live only with meaningful placeholders and to acknowledge that they are nevertheless only placeholders”, to recognise that “things in nature merely grow”. In spite of how much words fall short in tragedy, this book is Li’s graceful yet powerful defiance against “grief”, and she did so with such clear reasoning and logic that overflow with humanity.
“And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.”
In the face of life’s extremities, how does one still live a liveable life that is worth living? Li Yiyun examines how one live a life in thinking in the abyss in this profound memoir of James, her younger son who died by suicide 7 years after the suicide of her older son Vincent. When the “abyss” becomes our “habitat”, to live in “radical acceptance is “to live only with meaningful placeholders and to acknowledge that they are nevertheless only placeholders”, to recognise that “things in nature merely grow”. In spite of how much words fall short in tragedy, this book is Li’s graceful yet powerful defiance against “grief”, and she did so with such clear reasoning and logic that overflow with humanity.
challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
An extraordinary memoir on the devastating loss of both her sons to suicide. She writes so clearly on her boys, their personalities and the impact of their time with and without them, the impact of those around them, the impact on her life.
Don’t be put off reading this, Li has written something you’ll think now and now and now and now.
Don’t be put off reading this, Li has written something you’ll think now and now and now and now.