LEAVE SOCIETY

A bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives--as an artist, a son, and a loner.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves M anhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on t his trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, lonelin ess, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, ...[Read more]