What a gorgeous book! It builds and escalates to a conclusion that I found to be incredibly poignant and insightful. Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li is a meditation on life and death by suicide, especially on the topic of parents losing children to suicide.
I imagine that this book might reach those parents who have experienced something similar. The act of writing it seemed…a humanitarian endeavor. Even without experiencing those things myself, I hope I am wiser and more compassionate for having read it.
I do not seek out sensitive topics naturally, but I trusted Yiyun Li entirely to guide me through, and so she did. I do not feel sad or worse for having read it. In fact, I feel just the opposite.
