In Nature Things Grow, by Yiyun Li (Chai) “There is no good way to say this.” Twice, on different occasions, Chinese-American writer Li Yuyin heard from a detective that phrase that often anticipates the news of a misfortune. “There is no good way to expose these facts that must be clarified before I can go on with my book,” she writes. “My husband and I had two children and we lost them both. Vincent in 2017, at sixteen; James in 2024, at ninet…
In Nature Things Grow, by Yiyun Li (Chai) “There is no good way to say this.” Twice, on different occasions, Chinese-American writer Li Yuyin heard from a detective that phrase that often anticipates the news of a misfortune. “There is no good way to expose these facts that must be clarified before I can go on with my book,” she writes. “My husband and I had two children and we lost them both. Vincent in 2017, at sixteen; James in 2024, at ninet…