Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel

would choke these things down with the same worried expression as a dog who’s been given a carrot.

She drank a blue Gatorade, cold dark blood of the gods,

You aren’t trying to have a relationship with the character. You are trying to have a relationship with the author through the character.”

The fakeness is where the interest lies. In fact, I would go so far as to say that all things that are genuinely interesting aren’t quite real.”

He was a wind chime in human form, dangling dorkily from the glorious tree of higher education.

saying, “The main character is not a real person.” “But in the book, he’s a real person,” Derek had said. “Yes, insofar as he is not presented as a cat or a robot,” Mark said. “So, I am just saying, in the book, I think he has borderline personality disorder.” “This is not an interesting way to read the book.”