a random complaint
Sometimes I feel like the summaries for every literary novel I read run like this: potentially interesting setting - quirky damaged characters - but then the moment of searing tragedy that changes everything and threatens to tear their precarious existence apart. Which, you know, I don't particularly have any interest in reading. I get partway through these summaries, every time, and hit the tragedy and abruptly lose interest.
Where are all the stories about quirky damaged characters in interesting settings who manage to achieve some hard-won happiness? I know they're out there - but I don't think the world of literary fiction is where I'll find them.
Where are all the stories about quirky damaged characters in interesting settings who manage to achieve some hard-won happiness? I know they're out there - but I don't think the world of literary fiction is where I'll find them.