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Publisher: Penguin
Author: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780399589133
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Fiction
Must I Go
by
Yiyun Li
Must I Go by
Yiyun Li
Reviews
"Li has crafted an epic story of a life full of regret, but also of hope and perseverance and the importance of passing down our legacies"
Vulture
Summary
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.
Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.