Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
2018·226 pages·Nonfiction
“Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend is Li’s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.”
— Financial Times
“Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating—and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.”
— The Washington Post
“An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.”
— The Boston Globe
“Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“Li’s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.’”
— The New York Times Book Review
“A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”
— Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Year
2018
Pages
226
Type
Nonfiction
Praise
“Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend is Li’s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.”
— Financial Times
“Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating—and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.”
— The Washington Post
“An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.”
— The Boston Globe
“Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“Li’s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.’”
— The New York Times Book Review
“A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”
— Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead
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