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

October 13, 2026 · 5:41 pm 1 sources

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• Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music
  NPR · October 13, 2026 17:41
  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.