Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Reveals, gloriously, the companionship, intimacy, and insight that can come from obsession with the written word * LA Review of Books *Literature, the clash of public and private, human nature itself-these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane – Mary Gaitskill, author of The MareWeaving sharp literary criticism with a perceptive narrative about her life as an immigrant in America * The Millions *An intimate memoir of darkest despair… A potent journey of depression that effectively testifies to unbearable pain and the consolation of literature * Kirkus *Quietly forceful, unrelenting… She unfolds an argument with the self, suspicious of the very concept , but not, ultimately, refuse its possibilities – Eula BissNovelistic scenes, limpid prose, subtly moving emotion… Personal reminiscences [and] literary meditations… Li explores ruptures in time, the difficulty of writing autobiographical fiction, the pleasures of melodrama * Publisher’s Weekly *Publisher’s description. A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is the record of a life lived with books and a richly affirming examination of what makes any life worth living. * Penguin *Beautiful and profound… This book is a terribly beautiful gift to the reader – Neel Mukherjee * New Statesman *A remarkable account of literary life [from] an important and gifted writer… Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life – Marilynne RobinsonExtraordinary. A storyteller of the first order – Junot Diaz

Yiyun Li is the author of three novels, Where Reasons End, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She has won literary awards including the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta’s 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

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