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bjkingape 's review for:
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
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).