The Ghost Writer

by Loreth Anne White

“The way I see it, a crime—especially a violent one—is a break in integrity. A rip in the fabric of normal life. And our human desire is to put things whole in our community again afterward. This narrative arc of true crime is appealing to me.”

“Nothing in nature is intrinsically evil. Nature just is, and does what it does for survival. Good, bad, evil—those are human value judgments we bestow on things, depending on our cultures, traditions, history. And we use this to keep our communities, tribes, societies in check and functioning as a whole because, really, we are just herd animals.”

“Everything is narrative, Grace, even memories and the so-called ‘truth.’ We can only see the world through our own eyes and within the context of our own biology and our own pasts.”