And can’t “unfolding” — the act of delving, of analysis — be construed as a kind of love?Then I remembered the orca. I'm a writer and so I had to make my own words. The narrator, who is herself an author, writes her son back into existence by force of will, conjuring him into “a world made up by words, and words only. Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Mother and son in this novel rarely openly grieve. In life we don't always get to say certain things to the people we love. Life is busy. This fictional device is "meta" in the sense that it allows Li to play with Nabokov's Pale Fire. “A PARENT SHOULD never be a child’s biographer,” writes Yiyun Li in her slim, contemplative novel, Where Reasons End. “Where else can we meet but in stories now?”A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues

Comments on this story are moderated according to ourIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onThe Chinese-American author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about the process of writing about love, pain and grief.Yiyun Li navigates the loss of a child in her heartbreaking new novel Months after the book was published, in 2017, Li’s 16-year-old son killed himself.In the months after his death, Li began writing a new novel. "Sometimes a book decides how it has to be written. In 2012, the novelist Yiyun Li twice tried to take her own life. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. All Rights Reserved. She spoke to Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Toronto Reference Library in September 2019. Last year, a grieving mother orca in the Pacific Northwest carried her dead calf on her head for more than 17 days and 1,000 miles.

"A lot of books on this subject fall short — and I had to see how I might also fall short in writing about the way I was feeling. Comments on this story are moderated according to ourIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onThe Chinese-American author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about the process of writing about love, pain and grief.Yiyun Li navigates the loss of a child in her heartbreaking new novel In the … The habit of eavesdropping makes me think I'm invisible... mistakenly.

Words cast long shadows.

He looks at the world, he bakes, he knits, he plays with words. In life we don't always get to say certain things to the people we love. "You have to maintain that invisible space where you are looking at your characters but the characters can't see you. Life interrupts. “Sometimes I’m so sad I feel like a freak,” she says. Months after the book was published, in 2017, Li’s 16-year-old son killed himself.

Life is busy. “Calling Nikolai’s action inexplicable was like calling a migrant bird ending on a new continent lost,” the mother thinks to herself. How can anyone not see it that way?Here, fiction doesn’t just bleed into reality; it also gives life to the imaginary. He's a surprising child and a lot of things interest him. Unlike many other works on the subject, Yiyun Li’s latest novel steadfastly refuses to dwell on questions of “And if there is another end beyond the dead end, it cannot be called dead, can it?”After someone dies by suicide, one of the first questions is often, “Why?” Public discussions about the subject can at times resemble a psychological autopsy, where people dissect the “clues” left behind in an attempt to find answers.

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