A review by orestesfasting
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

One of the many books where the protagonist is not our narrator, who is obsessed with the elusive Fabienne. It becomes increasingly unclear whether Fabienne is a fabrication of Agnes - certainly, she is a romantic version of herself. And just as Agnes and Fabienne fictionalise their lives for an unsuspecting urban educated class, there’s a hint that Agnes may be doing the same to us - or even that now, as a member of that educated class now herself, that’s how she experiences her own memories, eternally alienated from her own past.