In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her ...

Author Yiyun Li has lost two teenage sons to suicide. Her new book is about how to think about life after the unimaginable.

Yiyun Li laughs a lot. In the hour we spent on Zoom, nearly every time she spoke there was a moment she would stop, look down, then up — and she would laugh. “Am I starting to sound cuckoo?” ...

There's something remarkable about her "determination to live with dignity and defiance through this extremity", said Johanna ...

Yiyun Li’s memoir takes unsparing measure of territory where “no parent would want to be.” ...

The novelist Yiyun Li, known for her powerful distillations of personal grief, makes art from subverted expectations. Yiyun Li at home in Princeton, New Jersey.Credit...Naila Ruechel for The New ...

Author Yiyun Li has lost two teenage sons to suicide. Her new book is about how to think about life after the unimaginable. It's called "Things in Nature Merely Grow." Yiyun Li's new book is about ...

Yiyun Li's new book is about thinking through the unimaginable. It's a departure from her many short stories and novels, and it's a sequel of sorts to her book about the death of her eldest son ...