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Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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A memoir from the author of The Book of Goose and Wednesday’s Child amongst others. This is Yiyun Li’s heartbreaking but defiant account of what happened after her eldest son unalived himself at 16, followed 6 years later in almost identical steps by her youngest son. This is not a memoir about the grief journey but analyses society’s expectations of how grieving should look and how long it should last for, and how suicide affects family’s. This book is incredible but please check trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide