The Book of Goose: A Novel [J0395]

2023 PB in nice clean condition. A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End. A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised-the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves-until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I'm so impressed by Li's language and narrative that made my reading experience very fluent, coherent and resonant."; "Fast paced, Gripping, unforgettable. This was one of the best books I have read this year. There is something charming about the way Yiyun Li writes that made it hard for me to put this book down."; "Endearing story of two French peasant girls making a game of their post WWII lives that tricks adults into believing one of them is a child prodigy. One of them probably is but uses her 'intelligence' in ways that subversively helps her cope with her hard life, consequences be damned."; "Highly recommend this amazing book—it will make you think a lot!"