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This moving, lyrical novel from award winning author Yiyun Li will be of interest to readers who love Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series. CU Boulder professor Megan O'Grady, reviewing the title for the New York Times Book Review, calls The Book of Goose "the most propulsively entertaining of Li’s novels, and Li herself "one of our finest living authors."
 
Publisher's description:

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.

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