Yiyun Li Must I Go Paperback Book

Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we haveThis brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as its happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book. Meg Wolitzer Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press the diary of a longforgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed by this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Rolands charming but arrogant voice with an incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, longheld secrets of her past. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of 27.Must I Go is an unconventional epistolary novel, a gleefully oneway correspondence between the verymuchalive Lilia and the longdeparted Roland. Though mortality is everpresent, this is ultimately a novel about life, in all its messy glory. Life lived, for the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With exquisite subtlety and insight, Yiyun Li navigates... | Yiyun Li Must I Go Paperback Book