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SUMMARY:July Book Club: Things in Nature Merely Grow
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DESCRIPTION: Dear Globe Coffee 422 W Mulberry St\, Baltimore\, MD 21201 ⏰
  Saturday\, July 25th 11:00 am-12:30pm &mdash\; Join us for discussion of 
 Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li for July Book Club! &mdash\; 🧾
  ABOUT THE BOOK: Iinfo: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221164555
 -things-in-nature-merely-grow Yiyun Li&rsquo\;s remarkable\, defiant work 
 of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. 
 &ldquo\;There is no good way to say this\,&rdquo\; Yiyun Li writes at the 
 beginning of this book. &ldquo\;There is no good way to state these 
 facts\, which must be acknowledged . . . My husband and I had two children
  and lost them both. Vincent in 2017\, at sixteen\, James in 2024\, at 
 nineteen. Both chose suicide\, and both died not far from home.&rdquo\; 
 There is no good way to say this&mdash\;because words fall short. It takes
  only an instant for death to become fact\, &ldquo\;a single point in a 
 time line.&rdquo\; Living now on this single point\, Li turns to thinking 
 and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. 
 Li does what she doing &ldquo\;things that work\,&rdquo\; including not 
 just writing but gardening\, reading Camus and Wittgenstein\, learning the
  piano\, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James\,
  but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes\, 
 &ldquo\;The verb that does not die is &lsquo\;to be.&rsquo\; Vincent was 
 and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be 
 James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now 
 and then\, now and later\; only now and now and now and now.&rdquo\; 
 Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li&rsquo\;s indomitable 
 spirit. &mdash\; 👀 no membership card required just join us! 
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 in-nature-merely-grow
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