5/20/2023 0 Comments Clay by david almond summary![]() ![]() Because in one way or another, you will have been there. ![]() This is both alienating and strangely intimate, as if we too are engaged in spying on these people, as if we too are complicit with what is going on. Characters are ascribed a function within the text: ‘the man I want to be with,’ ‘the woman I am obsessed with’, ‘his wife’, ‘my boyfriend’. If angry and uncomfortably honest makes you unlikable, I guess that’s just more of the shit we’re having to wade through.Īs in Anna Burns’s Booker-winning novel Milkman, with which Patel’s debut shares more than a strand of literary DNA, no one is named. ![]() I have problems getting to grips with this designation. Readers and critics alike have described the unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s I’m A Fan as an ‘unlikable character’, one of those Moshfeghian millennial bitches we love to hate. ![]()
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