Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, (Paperback)

from Rosareads

This is a LibraryThing Early Reviewers book: The author has not written a "longitudinal" memoir. Rather, her chapters are essays about her own life experiences and, to some degree, how those experiences influenced her. This was an especially difficult book for me to read. Every page felt like a c...

from akblanchard

In this collection of autobiographical essays, novelist Yiyun Li relates her life story to her reading of such authors as Ivan Turgenev, Marianne Moore, and Stefan Zweig. Like Turgenev and Moore, she has an obsessive, domineering, jealous mother; like Zweig she suffers with bouts of suicidal idea...

from SigmundFraud

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li is a memoir of a fine writer and a survivor who came to America in 1996 and adopted English as her language. I found the memories a little dense. It was in some ways a treatise on time featuring the past and the future, more than t...

from krwerner

I had a hard time deciding how to review this book. There were parts that I thought were beautifully written and asked such interesting questions. But then there were long parts that did not hold my attention. Part of the problem I think was how this book was described on the back. I was expectin...

from KatyBee

Yiyun Li's introspective memoir "Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life" is written as an essay collection of life memories. Li was raised in Beijing and she left China for the US at the age of 23. She became a successful award-winning fiction writer, but after struggling with men...