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13 October 2026

Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music

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Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music

Things in Nature Merely Grow. '/> Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons. In her new novel, Music Against the Night , she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (Image credit: Hannah Yoon)

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