{"product_id":"things-in-nature-merely-grow-9780008753849","title":"Things in Nature Merely Grow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘The best book I have read this year’ \u003c\/strong\u003eDAVID NICHOLLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Masterly … I'm in awe’ \u003c\/strong\u003eSALMAN RUSHDIE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful’ \u003c\/strong\u003eDOUGLAS STUART\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Extraordinary’\u003c\/strong\u003e SARAH MOSS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ \u003c\/strong\u003eSARA COLLINS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘There is no good way to say this,’ Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no good way to say this – because words fall short. In this remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance, Li turns to thinking and searching for words that might hold a place for her son, James. Li does ‘the things that work’: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. \u003cem\u003eThings in Nature Merely Grow\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction 2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘To state that this courageous book is a testament to love is an understatement. One is left altered by it’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Unlike any other book I've read … an unforgettable monument to endurance’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A book that has not a single spare word in it … I loved it so much’ \u003c\/strong\u003eAnn Patchett, author of \u003cem\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A meditation on living and radical acceptance’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘One of the most astounding memoirs I have ever read’ \u003c\/strong\u003ePandora Sykes, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Do We Know We're Doing It Right? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I will return to it for the rest of my life’\u003c\/strong\u003e Charlotte Wood, author of \u003cem\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A manifesto of living, not dying’\u003c\/strong\u003e Sinéad Gleeson, \u003cem\u003eThe Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780008753849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 18 Sep 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1.8(W)180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 180\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eYiyun Li is the author of twelve books of fiction and non-fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Guardian First Book Award, the Sunday Times Short Story Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, an International Writer Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Things in Nature Merely Grow is the winner of the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction, and was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. In 2026, Li was named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of the Year. She is the Robert F. 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