18 March 2023: Just finished The Book of Goose, the selection for my book club this month. It's a peculiar book: dark, vivid, funny--and the pages flew by when I actually had time to devote to it. Yiyun Li's take on the all-consuming intimacy of a certain kind of young female friendship is as wrenching and painful as it is beautiful. "Can't you see that we've already lived past the best times of our lives?" Fabienne asks Agnes, as the book concludes--and I felt it in my chest. Laura Miller, in this piece on Slate, puts it very well, writing of "the unsoothable longing of its conclusion."
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