Emancipatory Memoir: Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow

Following Yiyun Li's May 2026 Pulitzer Prize win, this session is a critical reception of her memoir as an emancipatory narrative: a descriptive and agential act that represents the unrepresentable experience of maternal grief/trauma.

Deadline for submissions: Monday, August 17, 2026

Anhiti Patnaik, Cascadia College (apatnaik@cascadia.edu )