When Book Worlds Collide: Unexpected Connections Between Fact and Fiction
Spoiler alert! This post references pivotal information in two books: The Lost Man (Jane Harper) and No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (Rachel Louise Snyder). If you do not want information, clues, observations, and possible plot complications revealed about either book, please stop reading now. Seriously. You have been warned. This summer, I experienced an unanticipated book collision. Two recently released books on my nightstand could not have seemed more different on their faces. One book is a novel written by an Australian woman that takes place in the Australian Outback. The third-person narrator is male, and most of the main characters are male. There are women in the story: family of the narrator and main characters, with only a few exceptions. The other book is a non-fiction tome written by an American woman, a journalist. The main story, and much of the follow-up, take place in Montana, USA (so ...