![]() ![]() ![]() Again and again, his father cautions him that the real justice system doesn’t function the way it does on TV, but then a judge delivers a speech that provides exactly the kind of moral satisfaction we want from crime shows. When Royal agrees to defend a White woman accused of killing her Black adopted daughter, the narrator becomes intrigued by the case. The narrator’s father, Royal, is an attorney approaching the end of his own career. Using a young girl’s murder as an inciting incident, Guterson tests the reader’s understanding of story, truth, and how the two intersect. After a description of the (implausibly brief) existential crisis that followed the end of his fiction-writing career, he addresses the reader directly: “If that leaves you wondering about this book-wondering if I’m kidding, or playing a game, or if I’ve wandered into the margins of metafiction or the approximate terrain of autofiction-everything here is real.” This may look like reassurance, but it’s actually a warning. “Awhile back, I stopped writing fiction.” This is one of the first things the narrator has to say about himself. A bestselling author explores art, justice, and grief as he questions what makes a story true. ![]()
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