Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music
Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons.
NPR reports: Li won a Pulitzer for her memoir about the suicides of her two sons.
In her new novel, Music Against the Night, she writes about two young prodigies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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