Books and Lunch on Tuesdays - The Book of Goose In-Person
Li’s fiction since her son’s tragic suicide seems to have catapulted her away from her the Asian roots that define her earlier award-winning fiction. Her latest begins on a pastoral farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Agnès, known as the “French bride,” lives with her husband without children but with chickens and geese with French names. A letter from her mother announces that Agnès’ childhood best friend, Fabienne, at just 27, is dead in their home village of Saint-Rémy. Agnès has already warned readers, “The name you should pay attention to in this story is Fabienne”; Fabienne’s death gives Agnès the permission to become a writer of truth—her truth, anyway—reclaiming her life, her memories, and her words after unwanted teenage fame as a “faux-prodigy” author. “The real story was beyond our ability to tell: our girlhood, our friendship, our love—all monumental, all inconsequential. The world had no place for two girls like us.” From post-WWII rural France, where there was never enough, to a posh finishing school in England, Li creates an achingly controlled narrative simmering with desperation to be truly seen and heard. -Booklist
- Date:
- Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Murray Room
- Categories:
- Adult
This book discussion program is HYBRID. We will meet in the library, but you may also attend via Zoom. Email Mike at mike.morris@thehowe.org for an invitation or more information.
BLT meets on the second Tuesday of each month at noon. We meet in the library and via Zoom. Bring your lunch and a healthy appetite for good discussion.