A review by ems1602
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, by Yiyun Li
challenging
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Started this book over a year ago, stopped at page 35. Felt I wasn’t in a good enough place to read it.
Finished it today. This book was a recommendation from the shop keeper, after I had asked for something with light in it.
This book feels like an afternoon spent under the branches of a tree; luminous at times, too bright to keep your eyes open, and you get lost figuring out shapes in the clouds of the author’s thoughts. I resonated with her relationship to language; writing; memory.
This memoir feels like a delicate watercolor.
Finished it today. This book was a recommendation from the shop keeper, after I had asked for something with light in it.
This book feels like an afternoon spent under the branches of a tree; luminous at times, too bright to keep your eyes open, and you get lost figuring out shapes in the clouds of the author’s thoughts. I resonated with her relationship to language; writing; memory.
This memoir feels like a delicate watercolor.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide