{"product_id":"2940169847871","title":"Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e¿What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?¿\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStartlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter amp;mdash; and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098125418736,"sku":"2940169847871","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169847871_p0.jpg?v=1763785828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169847871","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}