Early summer feels like the best time for some thought-provoking sad girlhood vibes - right? Well if you think we are wrong, then you can just be the orange to our knife. This month we are disassociating mid-breakfast with a discussion of The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li. While this book ultimately devastated us (in the best way), this episode is still full of giggles, cutting (yet joking) accusations of which character we most embody, and quotes that make us put down our glasses of wine as we need our brains on for this book. Per usual, we will continue with our Season 2 spoiler-free intros, where we will discuss our initials thoughts about the book before turning spoiler full in the second half of the show.
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Book blurb:
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.
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 magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a haunting story of friendship, art, exploitation, and memory by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.
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