Finished this a few days ago:

#YiyunLi - #TheBookOfGoose

Not a lot to say at the moment. Although I enjoyed it quite a bit, it really felt like the second half or so lost much of the momentum and intrigue that was built up in the first half?

Which in terms of the story itself, actually makes sense. Much of the novel pivots on the complicated friendship (?) of two young girls. That relationship, far from a simple friendship, injects the book with a great deal of uncertainty and curiosity early on. It also inspires the sort of koan-esque aphorisms that Agnes shares.

But as the novel proceeds and distance comes between the two girls - geographic, but also figurative - so it makes sense that the tone shifts, as does the tension.

#Bookstodon

Yiyun Li's *The Book of Goose* is quite wonderful so far! The relationship between the two main characters is just mysterious enough, unsettling enough, to keep you unsure of where things are headed. The narrator (Agnes) speaks in aphoristic language that doubles that sense of mystery and uncertainty.

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