The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

Author:Yiyun Li
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux


BEFORE I WENT TO BED that night, I wrote a letter to Fabienne. I would get up first thing in the morning and ask the hotel clerk to post it for me before we went to the train station.

The letter was short, more or less like this:

Ma chère Fabienne,

I am writing you from London. It is a city as big as Paris, but I am not sure if I like it as much as Paris. I am told that I will find more reasons to like it when spring comes. Once the weather is nice, Mrs. Townsend said, we will have school trips to London, to visit the museums and to attend the theaters and concerts. She bought me more clothes than I can ever imagine needing. I will look like a doll at my new school. We also went to see a Mr. Thorpe, who will publish the book in London. He is very tall. I wonder if he needs a bed specially made for him. Maybe he will also need a coffin specially made for him when he dies.

I miss you, ma chère Fabienne. In fact, I feel terribly unhappy. Mrs. Townsend asks me to call her by a silly name, Kazumi. It is like an old sow deciding its name should be Mignonette.

I wish I could get on a different train and travel home tomorrow.

Agnès

After I sealed the letter, I went to bed and cried into my blankets. It was the first time I had cried since I left home. Perhaps this was what people called le mal du pays. But my homesickness was not about home. I was missing not a place, but a person.



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