「自然萬物，僅僅是生長而已。」兩度經歷喪子之痛，一位母親與創傷共存的生死博弈。
長子離世六年後，次子亦因自殺相繼離去。面對常人難以想像的生命重擊，文學作家李翊雲沒有選擇煽情的呼喊，而是用最冷靜、克制且堅毅的筆觸，記錄下這場與悲傷的無聲對抗。全書聚焦於語言、事實以及「生命如何延續」的本質。這不是一本販賣痛苦的書，而是一劑在絕望中能撫慰靈魂、讓人重新找到接納力量的溫柔良藥。
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‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ SARA COLLINS
‘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 died not far from home.’
There 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. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction 2026
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025
Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2025
‘To state that this courageous book is a testament to love is an understatement. One is left altered by it’ Observer
‘Unlike any other book I've read … an unforgettable monument to endurance’ Sunday Times
‘A book that has not a single spare word in it … I loved it so much’ Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake
‘A meditation on living and radical acceptance’ Guardian
‘A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away’ New York Times
‘One of the most astounding memoirs I have ever read’ Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
‘I will return to it for the rest of my life’ Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard Devotional
‘A manifesto of living, not dying’ Sinéad Gleeson, The Week
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