Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music

SO THE PART THAT GOT ME IS THIS THRILLING LITERARY SHIFT FROM THE AUTHOR YIYUN LI WHO IS APPARENTLY SWITCHING GEARS BIG TIME BECAUSE AFTER WINNING A PULITZER FOR HER DEVASTATING MEMOIR ABOUT LOSING HER TWO SONS TO SUICIDE SHE IS DOING SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT NOW AND HONESTLY I AM HERE FOR IT BECAUSE SHE JUST RELEASED A NEW NOVEL CALLED MUSIC AGAINST THE NIGHT WHICH IS SET WAY BACK IN THE LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES ABOUT TWO YOUNG PRODIGIES WHICH FEELS LIKE A MASSIVE DEPARTURE FROM HER PREVIOUS WORK AND THE ARTICLE SAYS SHE TURNED TO MUSIC WHEN WORDS JUST COULD NOT COVER IT WHICH IS DEEP AND ALSO KIND OF A VIBE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT OK LAST ONE AND THEN WE DANCE.

OK THIS IS THE ONE I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT WHERE YIYUN LI JUST DROPPED A NEW BOOK CALLED MUSIC AGAINST THE NIGHT AND IT IS WILD BECAUSE IT IS NOT ANOTHER MEMOIR BUT INSTEAD IT IS FICTION ABOUT TWO MUSICAL PRODIGIES FROM AGES AGO WHICH IS A HUGE CHANGE FROM WHEN SHE WON THE PULITZER FOR WRITING ABOUT THE TRAGIC SUICIDES OF HER OWN SONS WHICH IS A HEAVY THING TO PROCESS BUT NOW SHE IS FOCUSING ON THESE HISTORICAL GENIUSES INSTEAD OF HER OWN LIFE STORY AND ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE SHE LITERALLY STARTED USING MUSIC BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT FIND THE WORDS FOR WHAT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH SO NOW SHE IS JUST CHANNELING ALL THAT INTO THESE OLD SCHOOL CHARACTERS AND IT IS HONESTLY FASCINATING STUFF SORRY I TALKED FOR THAT LONG, THE SONG IS GOOD THOUGH.

Author Yiyun Li, who previously won a Pulitzer for a memoir about the suicides of her two sons, has released a new historical novel titled Music Against the Night about two 18th-century prodigies.

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