Things in nature merely grow yiyun li: There 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 timeline.” 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 the things that work,” including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.
This 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.
About things in nature merely grow yiyun li
| Book Name | Things in Nature Merely Grow |
| Author | Yiyun Li |
| Format | |
| Size | mb |
| Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Release date | May 20, 2025 |