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When I started reading "Pretend I'm Dead", I right away was drawn to a character/narrator with mental health issues. As a writer myself, I recognized the "unreliable narrator" that they teach you about in English classes. But as I read the book (which I loved!) I realized that Mona really wasn't unreliable. She was narrating her world as she experienced it. Was the narrator unreliable?
Kassie Theresa To me, anyone narrating the world from their perspective is at least somewhat unreliable, because people can't be truly objective. I feel like she's n…moreTo me, anyone narrating the world from their perspective is at least somewhat unreliable, because people can't be truly objective. I feel like she's not unreliable because of her mental health issues as much as she's unreliable because she's human, therefore she sees things a certain way because of her personality/experiences/etc..(less)
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Pretend I'm Dead
by Jen Beagin
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