ISBN: 1984801651 9781984801654

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 192

<b>A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, "a masterpiece by a master” (<b>Elizabeth McCracken,</b> <b><i>Vanity Fair</i></b>).</b><br><br><b>"Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <br><br><b>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 <i>TIME </i>AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, <i>The New York Times </i>• NPR • <i>The Guardian </i>• <i>The Paris Review</i></b><br><br> The narrator of <i>Where Reasons End</i> writes, “<i>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</i>.”<br><br> 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, <i>Where Reasons End</i> 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.<br><br> Written with originality, precision, and poise, <i>Where Reasons End</i> is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.