I'm reading a book that disturbs me, but in a good way. It’s not a disturbing book, but read on to find out why I’m a bit perplexed. It’s a writer thing.
First, the background.
Two years ago, I wrote the novel Slade in an unusual format: the interviewer talks to the characters about events from the past. Each interview reveals the characters and unfolds the story that started thirty years earlier, but gradually continues until it catches up to the present. The book's entire format is in interview form, with occasional, and purely fictional, news stories tossed in as supporting materials. It felt similar to the structure of those true crime documentaries, although Slade is not a crime novel by any stretch of the imagination. How and why I wrote it in this format is a whole ’nuther story for a different day.
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