“Don’t go!” “Come on, Sam. It’s late.” “But I can’t sleep.” “You can if you want to,” Courtney says, because if Sam wants, she can read and sleep and do everything the way she is supposed to.
this is super interesting … to try writing about the past as if in the perspective of a child….. it’s a unique challenge and constraint to set up for yourself and as a writer im super interested to see how goodman achieves this. so far, her simple sentences and syntax prove effective, the sparse prose laying bare the facts of sam’s life and hinting at possible adhd disorder.
