Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life
By: Yiyun Li
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780399589096
Subjects: Mental health; American Authors; Biography; Depressed persons
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).
Table of contents: title: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life; title: Amongst people; title: Memory is a melodrama from which no one is exempt; title: Two lives; title: Amongst characters; title: To speak is to blunder but I venture; title: Either/or : a chorus of miscellany; title: Reading William Trevor.