{"product_id":"things-in-nature-merely-grow-1","title":"Things in Nature Merely Grow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR\/AUTOBIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Andrew \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN\/Jean Stein Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is no good way to say this,\" Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged . . . My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is no good way to say this--because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, \"a single point in a time line.\" Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: doing \"things that work,\" including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, \"The verb that does not die is 'to be.' Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now.\" \u003ci\u003eThings in Nature Merely Grow\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50333441425628,"sku":"9781250437976","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/4845\/9740\/files\/imageloader_5f669753-b1ac-4aeb-9758-642cfe4f3110.jpg?v=1779390654","url":"https:\/\/tworiversweirdsisters.com\/products\/things-in-nature-merely-grow-1","provider":"Two Rivers \u0026 Weird Sisters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}