Linden MacIntyre. WHY MEN LIE. Vintage, 2012.
Characters from The Bishop's Man and The Winter Wives. Narrated by Effie MacAskill Gillis, about her affair with JC Campbell. Set in Toronto and Nova Scotia. This reader was skeptical of the male depiction of a female character. Seems her life revolves around men, 2 exes, - John & Sextus - her brother Duncan, 1 ex fling with Conor, and her latest, JC. Seems to focus on male deception and sins of omission without seemingly being aware of her own doing the same. I suspect this is the point. Opposite-sex depiction of somewhat unreliable (and not very self-aware) female narrator. I lot of violence, urban and rural. It struck me that even though they are thousands of miles from home, these city people still associate mostly with relatives and other people from home.
Oct 28, but inspired by story of a similar topic at reading club.
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