
The Book of Goose
“[Li explores] the strange power of the myths we form about the people who shape us.”
The Atlantic
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2022
One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2022
A London Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2022
A London Guardian Best Book of the Year
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year
Among shortlisted titles for PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner, 2023
Among longlisted titles for BookPage Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Slate Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Powell's Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Guide, 2022
Among longlisted titles for Slate Book Review Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee, 2023
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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