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2 weeks ago | 
oprahdaily.com | Yiyun Li
1For Mothers Who Have Lost ChildrenThings in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun LiNow 10% OffMothers who outlive their children often inhabit a world of hushed silences and euphemisms. Written in the aftermath of losing both of her teenage children to suicide, Li’s memoir stomps through a territory we are told to tiptoe in and fills a void of language with booming insight.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Yiyun Li
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died. Source link
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Yiyun Li
“There is no good way to say this”—when the police arrive, they inevitably preface the bad news with that sentence, as though their presence is not ominous enough. The first time I heard the line, I already knew what was about to be conveyed. Nevertheless, I paid attention to how the news was delivered: the detective insisted that I take a seat first. I sat down at the dinner table, and he moved another chair to an appropriate distance and sat down himself.
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Yiyun Li
Lilian was the only patient that morning. This was a change from the crowded waiting room she was used to in the days before Dr. Fenton began to charge an annual fee. “Concierge medicine” sounded like “bespoke chocolates” and would not have been Lilian’s natural inclination, and yet she stayed with the clinic. Looking for a new physician would require making calls, meeting strangers, and filling out medical-history forms, and that, even for a healthy fifty-one-year-old, could be complicated.
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2 months ago | 
mdpi.com | Ningyu Liu |Jianxin Cao |Mingying Yang |Yiyun Li
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Yonglin Mu |Chunhui Zhang |Yiyun Li |Weilong Zhou
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
harpers.org | Yiyun Li
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I led a virtual discussion of War and Peace, with the thought that someone else might enjoy reading the novel with me. Three thousand people ended up following along, which seemed to me a good way to connect people in isolation. But there were disagreements.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Yiyun Li
The guest from America was to arrive in the late afternoon. Ursula, having arranged the welcome platter, waited until she heard a car slowing down in the driveway, its gravel rinsed all day by the rain, before drizzling some honey in broad strokes on the cheese and the nuts. From the kitchen window, she could see the cabdriver—Timothy today—place a suitcase next to the door, heavy, as demonstrated by his eloquent grimace.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li In 2006, Colm was visiting a graduate class taught by a friend on the west coast where I was a young assistant professor, so I slipped into the class, pretending to be a student. During the hour-long class, I was stricken by this man—up until then I had never seen a face so brilliantly vivid, so wise, so patient (it wasn’t the most inspiring group of students), so sharp, and yet so amusing and amused. I swear I did the most impudent thing. I stared at him the entire time.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Hugo Rifkind |Maya Binyam |Jacqueline Crooks |Yiyun Li
LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says Incredibly compulsive, Hugo Rifkind’s Rabbits is a menacingly funny story of dark secrets, coming-of-age faltering, and the dirty seduction of being sucked into elite circles, in this case a middle-class boy sliding into Scottish aristocracy. Also shot-through with the mystery of a death and its protagonist’s personal loss and dislocation, Rabbits is a droll, bold, disturbing dynamo of a book.
