His ability to capture such realistic views, tones, and emotion. It gets you to wonder if his fiction was once a reality. “Mr. Jones, where does your writing come from, a memory that has long happened or a dream where reality’s opaqueness is questionable to a fading memory?” A question I would ask him if I ever meet him, but after praising him for his writing of course. Not many people can create a fictional life full of strategic detail and emotion from thin air. That type of writing has to come from somewhere, then to be a man and narrate from an older woman narrating her younger self’s memories is just extraordinaire.
About
Professor: Jessica Penner
Email: creative.writing.citytech2@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 AM – 1 PM. I’ll be available through Zoom and will send an invitation via email that you should keep all semester. Try to join my meeting at the start of the hour, not at the end—since I may be talking to other students or have another appointment after the hour is up. If those times don’t work with your schedule, we can schedule a different time. This means you’ll have to schedule an appointment in advance via email. I suggest you have multiple times in mind, since your schedule may not mesh with mine!
I didn’t actually realize the writer wasn’t the same person as a narrator until much later. I agree that the way it’s written is so real that it’s hard to believe that it’s just fiction.