Title: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life /
Authors: Li, Yiyun, 1972-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Li, Yiyun, Mental health.; Li, Yiyun,; Authors, American Biography; Depressed persons United States Biography.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs.; LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays.; PSYCHOLOGY Psychopathology Depression.; Authors, American.; Depressed persons; Mental health; United States
Abstract: "Yiyun Li's searing personal story of hospitalizations for depression and thoughts of suicide is interlaced with reflections on the solace and affirmations of life and personhood that Li found in reading the journals, diaries, and fiction of other writers: William Trevor, Katherine Mansfield, and more"--
Contents: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life -- Amongst people -- Memory is a melodrama from which no one is exempt -- Two lives -- Amongst characters -- To speak is to blunder but I venture -- Either/or : a chorus of miscellany -- Reading William Trevor.