{"product_id":"where-reasons-end","title":"Where Reasons End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Vagrants\u003c\/em\u003e, a devastating and utterly original novel on grief and motherhood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDays: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into an ally or an enemy to myself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA woman's teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best: on the page, as an imagined conversation with the child she has lost.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHe is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself, and he will speak back to her, unable to offer explanation or solace, but not yet, not quite, gone. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere Reasons End\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary portrait of parenthood, in all its painful contradictions of joy, humour and sorrow, and of what it is to lose a child.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44622700609793,"sku":"9780241985182","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-754.png?v=1710325557","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/where-reasons-end","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}