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Little Atoms 783 - Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose

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Agnes and Fabian's Diversion of Their Fate

Through this process of writing a novel Agnes is very ambivalent about it like she doesn't seem to even understand what the consequences will be in terms of making money. This is sort of contrasted with a very, very portrayal of the sort of Parisian literary or publishing scene of the, of the 1950s as well as she's tried to be shaped into into somebody who can be presented and shown as a prodigy. In a way I think again this is an exploitation of a young girl from the countryside but you cannot really say whom has gained more by doing so.

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