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Title: Where Reasons End

Author: Yiyun Li

ISBN: 9781984801654

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2021

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Number of Pages: 192

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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