I started an odd little book last night, and I'm not quite sure what counts as its opening chapter (vs prologue), so I'll choose the option that I like best:
My name is Agnès, but that is not important. You can go into an orchard with a list of names and write them on the oranges, Françoise and Pierre and Diane and Louis, but what difference does it make? What matters to an orange is its orangeness.
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
See what I mean about odd?
What's yours?