Communing with the Dead: On Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End”
“A PARENT SHOULD never be a child’s biographer,” writes Yiyun Li in her slim, contemplative novel, Where Reasons End. The narrator is speaking to the ghost of her son, Nikolai, dead at 16 by suicide. A parent should never have to bury their child; a parent should never be forced to deliver their child’s eulogy, […]
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