{"product_id":"9780008753849","title":"Things in Nature Merely Grow - Yiyun Li","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 2026 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 `The best book I have read this year' DAVID NICHOLLS `Masterly . I'm in awe' SALMAN RUSHDIE `Beautiful' DOUGLAS STUART `Extraordinary' SARAH MOSS `A formidable testament to a mother's love' SARA COLLINS `There is no good way to say this,' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. `There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.' There is no good way to say this - because words fall short. In this remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance, Li turns to thinking and searching for words that might hold a place for her son, James. Li does `the things that work': including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit. Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction 2026 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025 Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2025 `To state that this courageous book is a testament to love is an understatement. One is left altered by it' Observer `Unlike any other book I've read . an unforgettable monument to endurance' Sunday Times `A book that has not a single spare word in it . I loved it so much' Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake `A meditation on living and radical acceptance' Guardian `A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away' New York Times `One of the most astounding memoirs I have ever read' Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? `I will return to it for the rest of my life' Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard Devotional `A manifesto of living, not dying' Sin�ad Gleeson, The Week\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"192 pages \/ 26\/02\/2026 \/ Memoirs","offer_id":57299647562103,"sku":"9780008753849","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780008753849.jpg?v=1783949120","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780008753849","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}