Must I Go by Yiyun Li
āOne of our major novelistsā (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.
āYiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, andĀ Must I GoĀ is an extraordinary book.āāMeg Wolitzer,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Female PersuasionĀ andĀ The Interestings
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĀ MARIE CLAIREĀ ANDĀ ESQUIRE
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.
Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her ownĀ rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.
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Must I Go by Yiyun Li
āOne of our major novelistsā (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.
āYiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, andĀ Must I GoĀ is an extraordinary book.āāMeg Wolitzer,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Female PersuasionĀ andĀ The Interestings
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĀ MARIE CLAIREĀ ANDĀ ESQUIRE
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.
Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her ownĀ rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.
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āOne of our major novelistsā (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.
āYiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, andĀ Must I GoĀ is an extraordinary book.āāMeg Wolitzer,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Female PersuasionĀ andĀ The Interestings
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĀ MARIE CLAIREĀ ANDĀ ESQUIRE
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.
Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her ownĀ rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.
