Must I Go by Yiyun Li Paperback Book 9780241978689

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 affairIncreasingly 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 27Must I Go is an unconventional epistolary novel a gleefully oneway correspondence...