Where Reasons End: A Novel
by Yiyun Li
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2020 · ShortlistPEN/Jean Stein Book Award · 2020 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2020 | Shortlist |
| PEN/Jean Stein Book Award | 2020 | Winner |
About This Book
Yiyun Li's novel is an imagined dialogue between a mother and her teenage son who has died by suicide, written in the aftermath of Li's own son's death. Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.
About the Author
Yiyun LiCN
Yiyun Li is a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most important literary voices of her generation. Born in Beijing, she studied immunology at Peking University before emigrating to the United States, where she received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in nonfiction from Iowa. Her debut short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005), won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, among others. Read more →
