heathero621 's review for:

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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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.