'When reading, there was one moment I was so engrossed, I was startled when the plane landed because I’d forgotten I was on a plane,' biblioracle writes about “The Book of Goose' by Yiyun Li.
A recent week in March was filled with an unusual amount of travel as I did a series of three public talks in three different cities over four days.
The choice of book was pretty fraught. Normally I travel with at least two books in case I finish one and need another, or if I’m not connecting with one and need to go to a backup. But I was traveling light, using a single backpack crammed with my electronics and a change of clothes, with no room for a second book.
Enter “The Book of Goose,” the story of Agnès, a woman in her 20s, looking back on her childhood in a small, rural French town in the years after the Second World War. Agnès and her friend Fabienne conspire to turn Agnès into a child prodigy author. When reading, there was one moment I was so engrossed, I was startled when the plane landed because I’d forgotten I was on a plane.
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