Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li The Republic of Tea and the Civil War itself

and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery

the evil Thrull

If you never try

Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion

And who knows where Daddy is

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li The Republic of Tea and the Civil War itselfOne of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. "There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. "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