Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves - until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune and terrible loss. A wonderfully subtle and highly skilled writer, Yiyun Li has produced what might just be her best book yet, an epic of female friendship that is both strange and utterly recognisable. #thebookofgoose #booksellerrecommends #dauntbooks #literaryfiction