**A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, a masterpiece by a master” ( * *Elizabeth McCracken,***** Vanity Fair *** ).** **Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.”— *The Wall Street Journal*** **WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY *TIME *AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal,* The New York Times *• NPR •* The Guardian *•* The Paris Review*** 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.