I strongly recommend this book to parents, as a parent, as a Chinese parent, as a parent with a child demanding perfection and precision from herself.
This is one of the few books that I finished reading from cover to cover without skipping a single line.
I know many Chinese parents send kids to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, or Iowa Writers' Workshp has come up several times in this forum, the auther, Yiyun Li is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
As the book cover sleeve reads" Written with originality, precision and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love".
I couldn't unread the following dialogue about suffering:
The mother: you suffer more because you insist on being bright and sharp.
The child: I suffer more because you want to do the world does, to dim the bright and to blunt the sharp.
As 2022 approaches, I resolve to read all of her books, (I know it will fail, at least, I will read some more).
