I’d be so angry in Faye’s place. That was not an interview. In such a situation I might tell the interviewer I’d be happy to reschedule, or ask her to send me her questions, since she needs to leave before the interview even begins.

The gift of a night out cannot be slept on. How about grabbing tickets to see literary superstars Karl Ove Knausgaard and Rachel Kushner in-conversation? Tickets include a copy of the book!
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…and Ilya Gridneff

Such a great novel. Have you read Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt? It’s on my short stack to start soon.

Thank you, as always, for leading us!

I agree, all perspectives are certainly limited and biased, and there can be an overlap with narcissism and PTSD, but we don’t know enough about Faye yet to understand. Objectively, I see her telling other people’s stories from her limited perspective — what drives her to do this we don’t yet know.

I didn’t know that existed. I’ve bookmarked it to listen to when we are done reading. Thank you!

Ooh, thank you! I will save for when we are done with these three books.

The way she is controlling all of these stories; the way we understand them are only through Faye’s (judgmental and limited) perspective. I’m beginning to think that if we heard the perspectives of the people she ‘lays bare’ we might realize Faye is the actual problem.

I don’t even find it dark so much as unbelievable. The stories are too excessive (exaggerated?) and I find our narrator untrustworthy and manipulative. We’ll see where she is going with all of this, if there is a way she will pull all this together or just drive us off the cliff with her. 😅

Or, she’s a cold, controlling narcissist. 🤷‍♀️

It would be so unnatural, and most likely unreliable, as too much could be taken out of context. Perhaps we are getting to the core of our narrator?

I’m having such a hard time with this book and these stories.