In Cherry Garcia, Pistacio Cream you the author burst into the story at intervals and comment on the story, on yourself, and on the reader. Why not just write the story?
Meta-fiction, the author interrupting her text and commenting on it, was avant-garde twenty years ago. Now it’s simply one of the available modes. It fascinated me to think about how readers might perceive this upbeat mother-daughter story in an era when the market has trained mainstream readers to expect fiction that features lots of shoot ‘em up action, violence and shocking events. So I tried to imagine what a reader’s unconscious expectations might be, and to articulate that, so that my readers then might think not just about the happiness of the mother and daughter but also about their own unconscious assumptions. The story won a prize, which suggests that this struck a cord with quite a few readers.
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In Cherry Garcia, Pistacio Cream you the author burst into the story at intervals and comment on the story, on yourself, and on the reader. Why not just write the story?