RaveThe Atlantic\"A stunning exploration of suffering and loss ... The conversation between mother and son is poetic and philosophical, quiet and undemanding ... Here, fiction doesn’t just bleed into reality; it also gives life to the imaginary ... Li’s portrayal of grief as something that doesn’t necessarily have a clear end point might be closer to real-life experience for many ... As an effort to paint a truthful picture of a mother’s grief, Where Reasons End occasionally indulges in a kind of fatalism, wondering whether this particular death was unavoidable. But the novel also takes the crucial step of dismantling a troubling trope in stories about suicide. Knowing she may never find all the right answers, Li’s narrator abandons that search. She writes her child back to life and, in doing so, responds to an act of destruction with an act of creation.\
