Where Reasons End

Name: Where Reasons End
Author: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9781984817389

Yiyun Li

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Where Reasons End

Yiyun Li

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#3686 of 8,085 books · #1882 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2020).

Where Reasons End won the PEN/Jean Stein Award, was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was named one of the ten best fiction books of the year by Time. 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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