Description

In this intimate novel, Lilia looks back on a life shaped by love’s promises and its losses, from the quiet endurance of family years to the long aftermath of grief. As she moves through the later chapters of her life—after grandchildren arrive and her husband is gone—Lilia confronts what it means to keep living when devotion has been tested by death. Li’s spare, luminous prose turns personal memory into a meditation on survival, attachment, and the complicated ways love can both sustain and haunt. Blending emotional clarity with moral and psychological depth, the book explores how we carry the people we lose—and what we owe to the living in the process.

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paperback

Random House Publishing Group

Published Jan 1, 2020

320 pages

ISBN: 9780399589126

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Details

First Published

2016

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Must I Go by Yiyun Li.

Suicide/Self-Harm
Death/Grief