![]() Karl Ove Knausgaard, on the other hand, eschews fragments for odysseys: His six-volume autobiographical novel, My Struggle, is a feat in personal disclosure. Experimental and nonlinear, the novel’s form reflects the fragmentary language of grief. ![]() In Zinzi Clemmons’s What We Lose, a narrator named Thandi loosely depicts the author’s own experiences after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. In fusing the unreal with the hyperreal, she can dig down into the thorniest bits of her family’s story while simultaneously building an escape route out of it.Ī compelling genre for revising difficult realities, autofiction is an equally effective medium for writers to face trauma head-on. Rather, Watkins has written a destabilizing autofiction. But those strange teeth-which Claire grows lovingly, in secret-are one of the early hints to the reader that this book is no mere memoir. Claire mirrors the author in many ways beyond their shared name: They’re both writers navigating new motherhood and mourning a father who died when they were young. ![]() ![]() Claire Vaye Watkins, the conspicuously named protagonist of Claire Vaye Watkins’s latest novel, I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness, knows that her vagina has teeth. ![]()
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