A review by forcenerie
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li

3.0

a fascinating but uneven, even uneasy, experience for me. in a book like this, I naturally look for moments of agreement, of familiarity between the writer and myself, but somewhere in the middle of this it seems like Li is resisting that sort of recognition by the reader, and so this becomes a different sort of memoir entirely. the essays feel more like journal entries written as a private act despite knowing they’d be read, and with a sort of bitterness in that knowledge. glad I read it, but not sure what I will take from it, what Li would permit a reader to take from it, a difficult feeling to end with in such a personal book.