Where Reasons End

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By Yiyun Li, professor of creative writing

Published Aug. 8, 2019

Where Reasons End (Random House) is an emotional novel centered around a time-defying world in which a mother speaks with the child she has lost to suicide. Heartfelt, painful, and vivid, Yiyun Li’s novel tunes in to the complexity of this relationship.

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