There are few things that can make a person feel more alone than grief. The unsharable experience of mourning a loss can feel isolating, with little relief. For those who are grieving, simply knowing they are not alone can offer much-needed comfort. To shine a light on the often-ignored subject of grief, Oprah Daily named a 2025 National Book Award–nominated title one of the “best memoirs that make grieving feel less lonely.” The book, one of six on Oprah Daily’s list, was published in 2025 and earned both critical acclaim and widespread reader praise.
View this post on InstagramIn an article for Oprah Daily, writer Charley Burlock names Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li as one of the best memoirs on grief. Burlock writes, “Written in the aftermath of losing both of her teenage children to suicide, Li’s memoir strides confidently through a territory we are told to tiptoe in and fills a void of language with booming insight.” Burlock adds that the book is “refreshingly absent of platitudes, false optimism, or an ounce of self-pity,” offering instead “a vision of maternal grief that is both unvarnished and, ultimately, survivable.”
Awards, Recognition, and Critical Praise
View this post on InstagramYiyun Li is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Wednesday’s Child, The Book of Goose, Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, The Vagrants, and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, as well as the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is a recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Malamud Award, and PEN/Hemingway Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and is a MacArthur Fellow and Windham-Campbell Prize winner. She teaches at Princeton University.
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