True Stories Don’t Tell the Whole Truth

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novelis a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.The acclaimed author delved deeply into magic realism for his latest book. Here, he describes why this genre continues to thrive.

Stories don’t have to be true

That by including elements of the fantastic or elements of fable or mythological elements or fairy tale or just pure make believe, you can actually start getting at the truth in a different way....