None of This Is True

by Lisa Jewell

And as awful as it sounds, death is a clean break. There are no gray areas. No ambiguity. It’s like a blank canvas in a way.

what do you do when you’re thirty years old if you’re not raising children? How do you spend your time?

She’s a consummate lurker. She never posts, she never comments, she never likes. She just looks.

Just as most of the facebook followers are these days.

But it is clear to Alix that Pat is actually a raging narcissist, and that no child of a narcissist ever makes it out into the world unscathed.

“And as awful as it sounds, death is a clean break. There are no gray areas. No ambiguity. It’s like a blank canvas in a way.…”