- Published: 23 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780241978672
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
- Published: 23 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780241978672
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
Reveals, gloriously, the companionship, intimacy, and insight that can come from obsession with the written word
LA Review of Books
Literature, the clash of public and private, human nature itself-these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane
Mary Gaitskill, author of The Mare
Weaving sharp literary criticism with a perceptive narrative about her life as an immigrant in America
The Millions
An intimate memoir of darkest despair... A potent journey of depression that effectively testifies to unbearable pain and the consolation of literature
Kirkus
Quietly forceful, unrelenting... She unfolds an argument with the self, suspicious of the very concept , but not, ultimately, refuse its possibilities
Eula Biss
Novelistic scenes, limpid prose, subtly moving emotion... Personal reminiscences [and] literary meditations... Li explores ruptures in time, the difficulty of writing autobiographical fiction, the pleasures of melodrama
Publisher's Weekly