**A brilliant writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.** The narrator of *Where Reasons End* writes, " *I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words*." Yiyun Li meets life's deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, *Where Reasons End* trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship. Written with originality, precision, and poise, *Where Reasons End* is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love. **Advance praise for** * **Where Reasons End*** "The most intelligent, insightful, heart-wrenching