BOOK BOX
The weight of a mother missing her dead child
In this edition of Book Box, four acclaimed female authors examine what it means to be a woman - from troubled mother-child relationships to rebellion against social norms
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Shortly after Chinese-American writer Li Yiyun wrote about a daughter's suicide in her novel Must I Go, her elder son committed suicide.
PHOTO: ROGER TURESSON
In Chinese-American writer Li Yiyun's new novel Must I Go, octogenarian Lilia Liska annotates the memoir of an ex-lover with whom she had a daughter, Lucy. He never knew about her and she killed herself at the age of 27.
Li was 44 - the same age Lilia is when her daughter dies - when she wrote this in 2017. Shortly afterwards, her elder son Vincent, 16, committed suicide.
