Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

A remarkable account of literary life [from] an important and gifted writer... Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life

Marilynne Robinson

Extraordinary. A storyteller of the first order

Junot Diaz

A work of arresting revelations...A writer of meticulous reasoning, probing sensitivity, candor, and poise, Li parses mental states with psychological and philosophical precision in a beautifully measured and structured style born of both her scientific and literary backgrounds.

Booklist

Beautiful and profound... This book is a terribly beautiful gift to the reader

Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman

Exceptional... one of our major novelists

Salman Rushdie

Li celebrates the authors who make reading a joyous pursuit, and the details that've made her own life worth living.

Huffington Post

Publisher's description. A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is the record of a life lived with books and a richly affirming examination of what makes any life worth living.

Penguin

Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries... [she] is the real deal

Michel Faber