http://theguardian.i2p/books/2022/sep/18/yiyun-li-the-book-of-goose-interview-being-subversive-important
She ran the novel past the Francophile writer Edmund White , a good friend, with whom she has attended a daily online book group of two since the start of the pandemic. “But, you know, I grew up with pigs running around,” she says. “And the good thing about teenage girls is that it doesn’t matter if they’re in France, or England, or China or Japan – they all have that intensity, that purity and also that sense that the entire world is made by their close connection to another girl.”