Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life /
Li, Yiyun
Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li. - Penguin Books, 2018 - 208 pages ; 20 cm
Written in the grip of suicidal depression, "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf to Ivan Turgenev. And with quiet integrity, she confronts the fundamental questions that define an author - why write? And why live?
9780241978665
Chinese American authors--Biography
Depressed persons--United States--Biography
Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li. - Penguin Books, 2018 - 208 pages ; 20 cm
Written in the grip of suicidal depression, "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf to Ivan Turgenev. And with quiet integrity, she confronts the fundamental questions that define an author - why write? And why live?
9780241978665
Chinese American authors--Biography
Depressed persons--United States--Biography