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Because I love that and am fascinated by that, it tends to sneak into the books. The extent to which it does depends very much on the character. Different narrators invite different levels of the blurring of that borderline between standard reality and whatever else might be out there.

Logos is everyday reality, your shoe, the pizza you had for dinner, the bus route to get from here across town. Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. Tana French On Tour. Books by Tana French. The Searcher. The Witch Elm. The Trespasser. The Secret Place. Broken Harbor. See More. Thu , Nov Harvard Bookstore Virtual Event. Author Essay How has your background in theater helped you create your characters?

Are any of the characters in The Likeness based on anyone you know? How much of Cassie is based on you? Me, on the other hand, I chose a career that basically involves huge amounts of daydreaming.

Daydreaming turned out to be my main life skill! She has to come face to face, without flinching, with the worst evils our society has to offer; me, there are days when I can barely stand watching the news. How did you get the idea to have Cassie and Lexie be identical in appearance?

How did you become so expert on police procedures? Which authors do you admire and how did they influence you? What advice would you give to a first novelist? What can we look forward to in your next novel? Connect with Tana French Facebook Twitter. You know A kills B, and then C finds out whodunnit. So that keeps you on track, to some extent. Could you could read a passage where Rob describes feeling this way?

The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back s a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you crackling to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed.

How did you learn the vernacular of detective work in order to write these books? Your books are set in Dublin, and you are not originally from Dublin. When did you come to Dublin? What was it about the city that fascinated you, that drew you in? I grew up moving around: my parents are from several continents between them, and when I went to college it just seemed like the natural place to go.

It was the place I knew best. This seems like the natural place to be. So you were here—or there, rather—during the Celtic Tiger, which is something that comes through in all of your books, the period of astonishing growth that transformed Ireland from a relatively poor country into a rich one, and then came crashing down with the international crash in What was that like to live through?

We were constantly being told by the government, by the media, by everyone around us during the Celtic Tiger that what was happening was wonderful. But, from our perspective, this just meant I have no chance of ever buying a house, and my rent is skyrocketing. And my generation is the one that got kicked particularly hard.

They are not the most reliable narrators, even when they believe themselves to be. Why are you drawn to that kind of detective? Many mystery writers like to create a sort of figure of authority who is going through a twisted, shadowy world, but is ultimately going to bring truth to light. Even when the truth comes to light in your books, it may not be the whole truth, and it may not matter, for practical purposes, whether the truth is out at all. And—this is going to sound odd—but I think an unreliable narrator does that best, because we are all unreliable writers of our own lives.

We all reshape our own narratives to make them fit what we want to believe or what we need or just what interests us most. So I think an unreliable narrator is the one you know most intimately, ironically, and the one who comes closest to fulfilling what the arts are really for. The New Yorker. Vivid and poetic.

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