{"id":22230,"date":"2026-01-04T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:16:31","slug":"dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cA meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.\u201d\u2014Marilynne Robinson, author of\u00a0<i>Gilead<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWhat a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression,\u00a0<i>Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life\u00a0<\/i>is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter\u2014and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin,\u00a0<i>Dear Friend\u00a0<\/i>is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together.<\/p>\n<p>Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live?<\/p>\n<p><b>Praise for\u00a0<i>Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLi has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating\u2014and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.\u201d<b>\u2014<i>The<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<b>Washington Post<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLi\u2019s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.\u2019\u201d<b>\u2014<i>The<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<b>New York Times Book Review<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.\u201d<b><i>\u2014The Boston Globe<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLi is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.\u201d<b>\u2014<i>Financial Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery writer is a reader first, and\u00a0<i>Dear Friend<\/i>\u00a0is Li\u2019s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.\u201d<b>\u2014<i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYiyun Li\u2019s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.\u201d<b>\u2014<i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life<\/h3>\n<p>By: Yiyun Li<br \/>\nNarrated by: Jennifer Ikeda<br \/>\nLength: 5 hrs and 35 mins<br \/>\nRelease date: 02-05-19<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nFormat and Bitrate: M4B@62 kbps<br \/>\nSize: 152.35 MB<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/d2776f571c793a927b82dfacc116d0f4\/Dear_Friend,_from_My_Life_I_Write_to_You_in_Your_Life.m4b.html\"><strong>Download from RapidGator<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usersdrive.com\/2exph9s9i5q5.html\"><strong>Download from UsersDrive<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[4300],"class_list":["post-22230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-yiyun-li","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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