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Diagnosing Literary Characters, One Murderer at a Time

Murder is contextual. Meaning, the action of killing by itself tells us nothing about underlying motivation. A murder in war, for example, has an entirely different motive than a serial killer’s compulsive, methodical kills. It’s apples and oranges, really: both fruit on the outside, but very different on the inside.…
BookTrib Guest Author
September 9, 2016
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Ashley Audrain on the Dark Side of Motherhood in “The Push”

“One day you’ll understand, Blythe. The women in this family…we’re different.” The woman talking in Ashley Audrain’s scorching novel The Push (Pamela Dorman Books) is Blythe Connor’s mother, Cecilia. Cecilia’s mother, Etta, hung herself at the age of thirty-two. Cecilia herself left the family when Blythe was only eleven. “I don’t…
Neil Nyren
December 25, 2020