The Book of Goose (A Novel)

BOOK SUMMARY

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.

PRAISE

"Li narrates from the fringes of her own experience, subverting the notion that a writer should be bounded by her own identity, that identity is both personal property and territory to be defended. She insists on her own uncategorizable perspective, breaking rules in a sly, stubborn way." — Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Magazine

"The Book of Goose is a fascinating period piece . . . focused on the prickly relationship between [Li's] two central characters . . . The Book of Goose itself is a spiky, scratchy, unsettling thing; and it's all the more interesting and impressive for it." — Lucy Scholes, Financial Times

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade Paperback 368 Pages Fiction 8.2 in H | 5.4 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.7 lb