THE BOOK OF GOOSE, by Yiyun Li (Fourth Estate, $32.99)
arly in Yiyun Li’s new novel, two 13-year-old friends, Agnes and Fabienne, discuss happiness. “Can you grow happiness?” I asked. “You can grow anything. Just like potatoes,” Fabienne said. Agnes finds this answer unsatisfactory, because “happiness should not be dirt-coloured and hidden underground. Even apples on a branch would be
