Taken Away takes you inside the days preceding and post Hurricane Katrina as seen through the eyes of a fifteen year old girl. Along with her anxieties about the disaster, she also faces a devastating blow to her family unit. Her baby sister is kidnapped from the hospital sometime during the evacu...
My favorite example of an unreliable narrator novel. You will be so taken with Eleanor's narration that you will not question her version of events until the contradictions begin to pile up. This is in spite of the fact that she is stalking a married preacher.
Wikipedia's entry defining the "unreliable narrator" states, in part:"...(A)n unreliable narrator...is a literary device in which the credibility of the narrator is seriously compromised. This unreliability can be due to psychological instability, a powerful bias, a lack of knowledge, or even a deli...
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