Book: Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li

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).

 

 

 

所有跟帖： 

• 喜欢她的短篇小说集Gold Boy, Emerald Girl -可能成功的P- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 15:17:37

• 文学作品离不开生死爱三味 -米汤- ♂ (186 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 15:18:54

• Li 以前的书我都不下去。喜欢lahiri ，推荐她的 The lowland -Bernal- ♀ (123 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 18:25:10

• 同感。Namesake 头半部很有感触，下半部没那么好。她还是短篇更精致。 -consgardener- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 23:07:37

• 不过李的个人经历有很多struggle, 新书也许会突破。想想命运真的很残酷 -consgardener- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 23:15:42

• 北大生物系毕业的女学霸 -二意三心- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 15:42:58

• 她到了Iowa才改的专业，太有勇气了！也是的确有才华撑腰！ -可能成功的P- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 16:47:34

• 牛！值得这个檀学习，别逼迫孩子学医，学计算机了。不是每个人都喜欢一样的东西。 -bobpainting- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/31/2021 postreply 19:46:42