I went to Amazon and read a few pages. The lady knows her craft. She is selling books. The first person narrative form certainly does have advantages. It is apparently not as necessary as I thought for an author to resort to car chases and explosions in order to retain an audience.
I will not mention this to my wife. She will say I need to write stories people are interested in.
“I instead wanted to invite the reader to ask questions about what’s going on in this scene, what is this character noticing based on what we know about where she comes from, in the position of an arrogant American study abroad student. This scene raises a lot of questions about who gets to move through the world, who is received in what ways, what are geopolitics that undergird something as innocent as a concert.”
If the author feels the need to explain a throw away description of a character, don't. Don't feed the racist trolls.
It just proves we have an AntiSemitism problem.
I went to Amazon and read a few pages. The lady knows her craft. She is selling books. The first person narrative form certainly does have advantages. It is apparently not as necessary as I thought for an author to resort to car chases and explosions in order to retain an audience.
I will not mention this to my wife. She will say I need to write stories people are interested in.
Never kneel.
“I instead wanted to invite the reader to ask questions about what’s going on in this scene, what is this character noticing based on what we know about where she comes from, in the position of an arrogant American study abroad student. This scene raises a lot of questions about who gets to move through the world, who is received in what ways, what are geopolitics that undergird something as innocent as a concert.”
If the author feels the need to explain a throw away description of a character, don't. Don't feed the racist trolls.
We live amongst garbage monsters.
Kuang is a very talented writer, but it was a slog for me to get through Babel. I did not enjoy that book at all.