{"product_id":"where-reasons-end-where-reasons-end-a-novel-9781984801654","title":"Where Reasons End: Where Reasons End: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, \"a masterpiece by a master\" (\u003cb\u003eElizabeth McCracken, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003eAND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The narrator of \u003ci\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/i\u003e writes, \"\u003ci\u003eI had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yiyun Li meets life's deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, \u003ci\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/i\u003e trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with originality, precision, and poise, \u003ci\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/i\u003e is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six works of fiction--\u003ci\u003eMust I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gold Boy, Emerald Girl\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir \u003ci\u003eDear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN\/Hemingway Award, a PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183017525522,"sku":"9781984801654","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7645b96-a6db-4aef-8aa4-88cfcd565eb8.jpg?v=1744452211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-reasons-end-where-reasons-end-a-novel-9781984801654","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}