{"product_id":"9780008753856","title":"Things in Nature Merely Grow: Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 – ‘Beautiful’ Douglas Stuart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'Unforgettable' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'Courageous' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'One of the most important books to be published in years'\u003c\/strong\u003e SARA COLLINS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'There are few writers with Li’s power' \u003c\/strong\u003eDOUGLAS STUART\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe best book I have read this year\u003c\/strong\u003e’ DAVID NICHOLLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eA remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is no good way to say this,' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving. As Li writes, 'The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. 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One is left altered by it' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'A story of loss that is unlike any other book I've read … an unforgettable monument to endurance' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'Resolutely unsentimental, and yet it might wind you with its emotional force' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003e'A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away' \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An extraordinary book’\u003c\/strong\u003e SARAH MOSS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I will return to it for the rest of my life'\u003c\/strong\u003e CHARLOTTE WOOD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A manifesto of living, not dying, and of how we endure the most unimaginable things'\u003c\/strong\u003e SINÉAD GLEESON, in \u003cem\u003eTHE WEEK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eA profound look at how a parent continues to live in a world without her children’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A book unlike any I've read, that brims with rare clarity and intelligence, with love and care. It will stay with me for a long time’\u003c\/strong\u003e CECILE PIN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow is a profound exploration of grief, motherhood, and the philosophy of death. This memoir, filled with poignant essays, delves into the complexities of relationships and parenting, offering a raw and unflinching look at bereavement and the enduring bonds of family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Sigrid Nunez (Sempre Susan), Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart), Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running), Georgi Gospodinov (The Story Smuggler), and Deborah Levy (The Cost of Living).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li, Read by Suzanne Toren","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889239871637,"sku":"9780008753856","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008753856.jpg?v=1778224087","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008753856","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}