The Red Tree (2009 novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Lampshaded. Sara notes in her entries that she's basically paraphrasing all of the dialogue she writes down from memory, which she admits isn't all that great (not to mention the fact that she ''might'' be going insane). She even drops the name of the trope:

{{quote| "I've had more than one heated "discussion" with readers and other writers regarding the use of unreliable narrators... The truth, of course, is that ''all'' first-person narrators are, by definition, unreliable, as all memories are unreliable. We could quibble over varying degrees of reliability, but, in the end, unless the person telling the tale has been blessed with total recall (which, as some psychologists have proposed, may be a myth, anyway), readers must accept this inherent fallibility and move the fuck on.}}

* [[Write Who You Know]]: Sara is a lesbian author in her forties, much like the author.