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

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Book Review - The Only Happy Children Is Our Dead Children

The main thrust of the novel is that the two girls between themselves concoct a book they write a book full of vivid and crude stories of provincial friends life. They have concocted together it's I would say you know the books title is happy children, which means the only happy children is our dead children will be have this little note at the beginning of the book so it's a book about their life, the only life they know. The actual stories are just their actual life. So Fabian has this really matter- fact way of describing her, you know life or their life, which of course just astonishing to the readers in Paris and later the readers in England,. A young girl would be

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