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Where Reasons End

Where Reasons End

Li, Yiyun

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 198481737X
ISBN13: 9781984817372
Publisher: Random House
Published: Feb 5 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, a masterpiece by a master (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair).

Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.--The Wall Street Journal

WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times - NPR - The Guardian - The Paris Review

The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.

Yiyun Li meets life's deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship.

Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.

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