Description
When Fabienne dies, her childhood best friend Agnès—now living far from the French countryside that shaped them—receives the news and is finally forced to confront the story she helped survive and the one she has spent years trying to control. From a war-scarred backwater town to Paris, an English boarding school, and a quiet life in Pennsylvania, Agnès traces how friendship can become both refuge and instrument, and how memory—tender, selective, and dangerous—refuses to stay buried. Blending contemporary historical fiction with a haunting intimacy, the novel explores exploitation and strength of will, the costs of reinvention, and the ways art and storytelling can both reveal and distort the past. In Yiyun Li’s signature lyrical, psychologically exacting style, the narrative moves like a spell: beguiling on the surface, unsettling in its depths, and ultimately about what we owe one another when the truth arrives too late.
Available Editions
paperback
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published Jan 1, 2022
291 pages
ISBN: 9780008531836
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Book of Goose by Yiyun Li.