Category:
Adults,
Contemporary,
General Fiction,
NovelLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
Asian Literature China Contemporary Death Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Mental Health Novels PsychologyWritten by Yiyun Li
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li.
WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • The Paris Review
‘Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into a friend or an enemy to myself.’
A woman’s teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best: on the page, as an imagined conversation with the child she has lost. He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life, and he will speak back to her, unable to offer explanation or solace but not yet, not quite, gone.
Taking the form of a dialogue between mother and son, Where Reasons End is an extraordinary portrait of parenthood in all its painful contradictions of joy, humour and sorrow, and of what it is to lose a child.
Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 02-07-19