Intimate ... Li recounts both boys’ lives with palpable love and paints complex, distinct portraits of each ... She also details...her own battle with depression, which she recalls with wrenching immediacy ... Readers who’ve dealt with their own tragedies will find comfort and understanding here.
Though elegantly written and deeply thought through, Li’s book makes for emotionally difficult reading, offering little comfort for those who may be experiencing similar travails ... As bleak as winter fog at dusk, suggesting that one goes on after tragedy only because there’s nothing else one can do.
