“We should sell this as a novel, shouldn’t we?” “But it’s all true.” “Exactly why it should be a novel! The frame of fiction allows the reader to … adjust their comfort. If they want to trim away a few of the more extreme points, write them off as artistic exaggeration, well, we give them permission. And if they want to imagine things went further, that we are hiding the juicy bits … well, we equip them to imagine.”
