Things in Nature Merely Grow Percival Everett Drawn into a life of

Drawn into a life of luxury she can’t afford to fall from

notebooks serve as a private laboratory—raw

The mysterious Domino Program has plans for Paige

But as the Nazi threat looms larger

through the canonization of the Bible

Things in Nature Merely Grow Percival Everett Drawn into a life ofIn this profound memoir, Yiyun Li confronts the unimaginable grief of losing both of her teenage sons, Vincent and James, to suicide. Vincent died in 2017 at age 16, and James in 2024 at age 19. Li refrains from labeling her experience as "grieving," as she believes the term implies a process with an end point, which she finds incompatible with her ongoing reality. The memoir is not a conventional narrative of mourning but a testament to Li's