The Book of Goose
by Yiyun Li · 2022
Literary Fiction · ranked #243 in category
Winner · The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2023
Two girls in postwar rural France collaborate on a book of brutal, brilliant stories that becomes a literary sensation — credited to only one of them. Decades later, the other reflects on what their friendship and their fraud cost each of them. Li's PEN/Faulkner-shortlisted novel is about authorship, female friendship and the specific violence of being used by someone you love.
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- Yiyun Li
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- Essential Read
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